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Navy corpsman Dave Boucher, (left) and Marine Staff Sgt. Ruben Santos treat Pvt. William Vizzerra, 21, Phoenix, Ariz., near the crest of Hill 881 N. The Hill was one of several strategically important hills surrounding Khe Sahn in western Quang Tri Province in Vietnam's I Corps. The fighting between the Marines and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regulars took place on April 30, 1967.
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A Vietnamese woman wails in protest at Marines who kicked over her rice storage baskets searching for weapons. The Marines were from Alpha Co., 1st Battalion, 1st Regiment, 1st Marine Division. They were taking part in Operation Lafayette about six miles north of Hoi An in Quang Nam province in Feburary 1967.
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Navy corpsman Dave Boucher treats Pvt. William Vizzerra, 21, Phoenix, Ariz., near the crest of Hill 881 N. The Hill was one of several strategically important hills surrounding Khe Sahn in western Quang Tri Province in Vietnam's I Corps. The fighting between the Marines and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) regulars took place on April 30, 1967.
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Burning Village
On Feb. 20, 1967, troopers from the 1st Cavalry
Division burned a village on the Bong Son Plain
in central Vietnam after one of the soldiers was
killed by a booby trap. For more images, click
here.
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Hill 881
On April 30, 1967, Marines finally took Hill 881
near the demilitarized zone in Vietnam. At the time,
it was the war’s bloodiest battle. For more
images, click
here.
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Ambush
On Feb. 14, 1967, a squad from the 1st Cavalry Division
was ambushed on the Bong Son Plain. For more images,
click
here.
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Robert Hodierne, certain that the war in Vietnam
would blow over before he could finish college, dropped
out in 1966 and went to Saigon to work as a freelance photographer, a stringer
in the terms of the day. He stayed until the summer of 1967. After finishing
college, he returned again in early 1969 and left in the spring of 1970.
He covered the war from the DMZ in the north to
the Mekong Delta in the south, from the Central
Highlands to the coastal plains. He photographed
soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Vietnamese
civilians caught up in the war. After Vietnam, Hodierne
gave up photography for reporting and editing.
A full resume can be seen at www.hodierne.com. |
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