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The Vietnam War

Then & now...
Fall of Saigon, april 30, 1975: A North Vietnamese tank rolls through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon. On the ground members of the South Vietnamese Palace Guard.
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Viet Cong prisoners wait in front of a Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse helicopter of Marine medium transport squadron HMM-161, during "Operation Starlight" south of Chu Lai, South Vietnam, Aug 1965.
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Sharon Ann Lane, the first woman killed in action in Vietnam.
Joined the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve on April 18, 1968, as a 2nd Lieutenant. Her first assignment was at Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver, Colo., where she was promoted and sent off to Travis Air Force Base with orders to Vietnam. During her time in Vietnam, Lane was assigned to the 312th Evac Hospital at Chu Lai. On June 8, 1969, a rocket hit the Evac Hospital, striking ward 4 and killing two people, while injuring twenty-seven. Lane was among the two that perished in the attack, due to fragmentation wounds to the chest. Lane was only twenty-five years old when she was killed in action.
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Then & now...
7th Ave. and West 43rd St., Times Square, New York, Dec 1969. Yoko Ono & John Lennon, “War Is Over If You Want It,” billboard.
The campaign was launched in 12 major cities: New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Rome, Athens, Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Helsinki.
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Troopers of the 8th Vietnamese Airborne Battalion fire M79 grenade launchers during fighting with the Viet Cong in a cemetery one-half mile northeast of Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airfield. 1968
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I'm curious what the device in the case at bottom left is (is is some kind of compass/direction tool for arty/mortars?), and what the tool bottom center is (something for arty/mortars?)?
 
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