VIETNAM: THE REAL WAR

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First Cavalry Division Medic Thomas Cole, of Richmond, Va., wearing a bandage over the left side of his face, tends to an unidentified soldier in a trench at An Thi, Jan. 30, 1966. The trench had been the first line of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese defense until it was taken by American forces.
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The two men who would lead Vietnam’s decades-long struggle for independence, first against the French and then against the Americans, pose together after the August Revolution, September 1945. At left is Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, the principal military commander and strategist. At right is Ho Chi Minh, a founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party who would become president of North Vietnam.
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY VIETNAM NEWS AGENCY

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