Founded in 1846, the AP today is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news and information from every corner of the world to media platforms and formats. The Associated Press (AP) is a not-for-profit global news agency headquartered in New York. The Museum will partner with Upstate veterans and military organizations to insure the preservation and presentation of our community’s history and stories. Vietnam: A Television History (1983) is a 13-part documentary and television mini-series about the Vietnam War (19551975) from the perspective of the United States. The Upcountry History Museum will include objects, archival materials and oral histories from its permanent collection to support and further illustrate the impact of the Vietnam War. These are pictures that both recorded and made history, taken by courageous photojournalists.Īs we begin to look back from the vantage point of half a century, Vietnam: The Real War serves as a photographic record of the drama and tragedy of the Vietnam War. The exhibition tells the human story of the War, from the American presence starting as a trickle of military advisers in the late 1950s, through dramatic operations involving thousands of soldiers in the 1960s, to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Now, drawn from AP’s photo history of the conflict, Vietnam: The Real War, featuring a selection of 50 large-format images curated by the Associated Press, will be presented at the Upcountry History Museum. The AP won six Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage, four of them for photography. This collection of images from the Associated Press Saigon bureau is the.
To cover the War, The Associated Press (AP) gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau, creating one of the greatest photographic legacies of the 20 th century. Read Vietnam The Real War by Associated Press available from Rakuten Kobo. Due to an uncensored press, the world knew and saw more of this war than any in history before or since. The war left a deep and lasting impression in American life, from its impact on the men and women who fought in it, to the journalists and photographers who covered it, to the millions of Americans who protested against it or supported it. Marines move through a landing zone, December 1969. Marines make their way through the sands of Red Beach at Da Nang, April 10, 1965.Īn aerial image shows a large peace sign, apparently gouged out of the countryside with a bulldozer, near Camp Eagle, headquarters of the 101st Airborne Division, in the northern part of South Vietnam, May 8, 1971.Īs fellow troopers help wounded comrades, a paratrooper of A Company, 101st Airborne Division, guides a medevac helicopter through the jungle foliage to pick up casualties suffered during a five-day patrol near Hue, in April 1968.U.S.
paratrooper in the jungle near the Cambodian border is lifted up to an evacuation helicopter in War Zone C, May 14, 1966.Ī makeshift underground hospital at the besieged Khe Sanh Marine base, March 1968.įreshly landed U.S. When it opens for the season, the Wright Museum of WWII in Wolfeboro, NH will feature Vietnam: The Real War A Photographic History from the Associated Press. Army helicopters pour machine-gun fire into the tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops as they attack a camp of Vietnamese liberation troops eighteen miles north of Tay Ninh, near the Cambodian border, March 1965.Īn unidentified American with an anti-war message on his helmet.Ī medic treats an American soldier during a firefight despite having a bandage around one of his own eyes, right.Ī wounded paratrooper grimaces in pain as he awaits medical evacuation from base camp in the A Sau Valley. paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade, hold their automatic weapons above water as they cross a river in the rain during a search for Vietnamese liberation troops positions in the jungle area of Ben Cat, September 25, 1965. The helicopter at left was shot down when it came in to resupply the unit. Marines emerge from their foxholes south of the DMZ after a third night of fighting against North Vietnamese troops, September 1966. Dates of the Vietnam War: 1959 - ApAlso Known As: American War in Vietnam, the Vietnam Conflict, Second Indochina War, War Against the Americans to Save the Nation Ho Chi Minh Comes Home There had been fighting in Vietnam for decades before the Vietnam War began. VietNamNet Bridge - Half a century has passed since the U.S sent its troops to Vietnam, the AP on October 1 published the photo book "Vietnam: The Real War," with 300 rare photos taken in the Vietnam War, in the US, Canada and the UK.
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