Vietnamese women in wartime - Press Photos

1958 - Vietnamese women seek equality

Dressed in white and car­rying ban­ners ins­cri­bed with their demands, Vietnamese women gather in ordely demons­tra­tion in front of the city hall of Saigon to demand equal rights with men. Some 50.000 women made March 25 their « Day » in the fight for equal suf­frage. Some of ban­ners read : « To recons­truct the coun­try Vietnamese women must be libe­ra­ted ». (AP wire photo).

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1961 - Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu with soldier girls, 12-7-61

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1962 - Salute first century heroines

Photograph shows uni­for­med women of the Republican Youth mar­ching past statue of the Trung Sisters in a Saigon parade mar­king Vietnamese Women’s Day. (1962 - Bookmark /2005693440/)

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1962 - Vietnamese youth carrying his aged mother

(NY3 - April 14) After the battle : A Vietnamese youth car­ries his agied mother on his back to safety after figh­ting last week bet­ween mili­tia­men and Viet Cong rebels at vil­lage of Tra Bong, some 30 miles nor­theast of Saigon. In back­groung is truck of Vietnamese gou­vern­ment troops. (AP wire­photo). 1962.

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1963 - Combat girl of Viet Nam (August 31, 1963)

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1963 - Mourn for Vietnamese protester (Nguyen Tuong Tam) who killed himself

Chanting mour­ning verses in a Buddhist pagoda in Saigon are friends and rela­ti­ves of Nguyen Tuong Tam during fune­ral ser­vice for him July 13. Tam, former foreign minis­ter of Vietnam, killed him­self July 7 as a pro­test against alle­ged oppres­sion by the gou­vern­ment of Buddhists, who make up 80 per cent of the popu­la­tion. (AP wire photo).

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1963 - Women in Buddhist demonstration in Saigon, July 17

Buddhists, inclu­ding monks, yank bare­han­ded at a barbed-wire bar­ri­cade in an effort to pull it down during a police-inter­rup­ted demons­tra­tion today in Saigon, South Viet Nam. A poli­ce­man pulls back on the bar­ri­cade, placed across a road to halt the spread of the demons­tra­tion. (Daily News, July 17, 1963).

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1964 - Vietnam war marching Vietnamese girls

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1964 - Vietnamese schoolgirls wave US flags

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1965 - Abandoned Viet Cong woman feeds her children

A Vietnamese mother feeds her chil­dren on the ground in an encamp­ment where they were aban­do­ned by fleeing Viet Cong men as Vietnamese govern­ment forces pres­sed pur­suit in the Binh Gia area on Dec. 7.

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1965 - Capt. Ho Thi V^e, commander of a South Vietnamese Women’s Armed Forces Corps company, instructs recruits under the watch of U.S. WACs

(24/3/1965) Nữ tân binh Việt Nam học điều lệnh : Đại úy Hồ Thị Vẽ đại đội trưởng một đại đội Nữ Quân nhân Nam VN đang hướng dẫn các tân binh của mình. Đứng quan sát là trung sĩ nhất Betty Adams (trái) và thiếu tá Kathleen Wilkes thuộc Đoàn Nữ quân nhân Hoa Kỳ. (AP Wirephoto)—[WAFC - Women’s Armed Force Corps ; WAC = Women’s Army Corps, the women’s branch of the US Army] - Galerie de manh­hai

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1965 - South Vietnamese’s escaping

Press pho­to­graph by Pulitzer price winner pho­to­gra­pher Kyoichi Sawada of a South Vietnamese family esca­ping the aerial bom­bard­ment of their vil­lage in 1965. Printed 1972.

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1965 - Viet Cong soldier Nguyen Thi Soi

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1965 - Vietnamese girls welcome Marines at Chu Lai

Các cô gái Việt xinh đẹp nhanh chân bước xuống bãi biển chào đón binh sĩ TQLC Mỹ khi họ đổ bộ vào đây hôm 7-5-1965... cách căn cứ không quân Đà Nẵng 52 dặm về phía nam. (UPI Telephoto) - Galerie de manh­hai

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1965 - Woman victim of Saigon bomb blasts

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1966 - Buddhists denounce Saigon military government

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1966 - Buddhist women bend in prayer in Hue

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1966 - Face in the crowd, Hue

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1966 - Government Ranger questions mud covered woman who had been hiding in mudhole in Viet Cong hamlet in the Mekong Delta

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1966 - Hanoi Women’s Unit

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1966 - Quy Nhon, Smiling south Vietnamese girl

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1966 - Self-Immolation of 17 years old Nguyen Van Thi

An American gaso­line can, an has­tily erec­ted-altar, and a char­red spot on the ground mark the spot where Nguyen Van Thi, 17, burned her­self early 5/31 in the fifth Buddhist act of self-immo­la­tion. The girl died in the hos­pi­tal a few hours after set­ting her­self aflame. (UPI by N.T.Tai, 8/1/66).

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1966 - Vietnamese girl rushes during a demonstration in Saigon

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1966 - Vietnamese women in war’s cross fire

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1966 - Wailing Vietnamese women is assisted from scene of terrorist bombing in front of Victoria Hotel, Saigon

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1966 - Women’s Auxiliary Corps, ARVN

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1967 - Her voice in government. Election of village council members in Mekong Delta

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1967 - North Vietnamese women militia

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1967- Vietnamese interrogator waves knife back and forth as he questions a young girl about the location of Viet Cong units in the area

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1967 - Women’s Army Corps anniversary

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1967 - Young Vietnamese woman winnows chaff from rice

From a posi­tion on a high stool, a young Vietnamese woman win­nows the chaff from the family rice. Photo dated Jun 19, 1967. It shows a pea­ce­ful shot of life in South Vietnam during the war. (AP)

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1968 - Group of South Vietnamese girl soldiers prepare to march in review before President Nguyen Van Thieu during parade in Da Nang

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1968 - High school girls practice military drill in Ben Tre

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1968 - Mourns for husband

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1968 - North Vietnamese women replacing man at war

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1968 - Vietnamese market sells American products

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1969 - Onetime enemies, now friends

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1969 - South Vietnam, Dang Tuyet Mai wife PM Nguyen Cao Ky in Paris

M^me. Nguyen Cao Ky, wife of South Vietnam’s Vice President and Saigon’s coor­di­na­tor of South Vietnam’s posi­tion at the Vietnam peace talks, par­ti­ci­pa­tes in a stu­dent demons­tra­tion near site of the peace talks here 1/25. Some 150 young mem­bers of the South Vietnamese com­mu­nity in Paris staged the demons­tra­tion sup­por­ting the Saigon regime. (UPI Cable photo).

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1969 - Three teenage girls of South Vietnamese Self-Defense Force near Hue

(31-1-1969) CHÀO KIỂU CON GÁI—3 cô gái tuổi teen trong lực lượng tự vệ Nam VN gần Huế cho thấy một mái tóc đen để dài tự do có thể dễ dàng gây khó cho cố gắng của các cô khi muốn chào kiểu nhà binh một cách dứt khoát. Các cô gái trên 16 tuổi được gọi vào lực lượng tự vệ thay cho nam giới phải tham gia trong lực lượng quân chính quy. Nhưng các quy định về cắt tóc ngắn của quân lực VN không áp dụng cho lực lượng tự vệ. (AP Wirephoto) - Galerie de manh­hai

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1970 - Girl volunteers of the People’s Self-Defense Force of Kien Dien

Girl volun­teers of the People’s Self-Defense Force of Kien Dien, a hamlet of Ben Cat dis­trict 50 kilo­me­ters north of Saigon, patrol the hamlet’s peri­me­ter to dis­cou­rage Viet Cong infil­tra­tion. (USIA) Exact date shot unk­nown. NARA FILE # : 306-MVP-17-3

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1970 - Girl’s militia at Vo Ninh village

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1970 - Nguyen Thi Binh, leader of the Provisional Revolutionary Governement of South Vietnam, in a press conference in New Delhi

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1970 - Truong Thi Vem, the boss man is a woman

Truong Thi Vem, right, chair­man of a fishing coo­pe­ra­tive in Nhan Trach, North Vietnam, sits for an inter­view with Daniel and Alma DeLuce during a recent visit to Southeast Asian coun­try. The vil­lage, hea­vily bombed by American planes, won a govern­ment award for heroism under fire. Truong Thi Vem was one of the many women Alma DeLuce met and inter­vie­wed during the North Vietnamese visit. (AP Wire photo).

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1970 - Vietnamese woman kneels to pray

UPI Radiophoto by Dennis Cook

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1971 - Militia sports feminine headware

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1971 - October 3, woman voter enters while armed soldiers keep the peace

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1972 - A crying woman conforted by another, Phong Dien

A crying woman is confor­ted by ano­ther 8/1 during a mass fune­ral for 110 uni­den­ti­fied civi­lians killed on Highway One in April as they tried to flee Quang Tri. An esti­ma­ted 2.000 people were lilled by North Vietnamese ambu­shes along the high­way over a three-day period. (Ted Kurrus, UPI).

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1972 - Kim Phuc, the Vietnamese child fleeing from a napalm attach in Trang Bang

1972 - Mother and wife throw themselves across the flag-covered box

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1972 - The pain of war

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1972 - Young South Vietnamese girl, a member of Government Pacification team, sings songs of loyalty

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1973 - The departure of the Americans

Photograph of a shoe­shine woman poli­shing U.S. Army boots in Vietnam in 1973. It is titled « The depar­ture of the Americans » by Christine Spengler.

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1973 - Vietnamese woman shines military shoes

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1975 - Vietnamese women in refugee camp, (Oct. 16, 1975)

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