Female Viet Cong prisoners, 1968

Female Viet Cong prisoners, 1968

Female Viet Cong prisoners sewing in their quarters.

Female Viet Cong prisoners sewing in their quarters. Some 85 girls and women - 21 females are under the age of 18 - are interened in the camp that opened two years ago and houses a little less than 1,000 prisoners - 200 of which were captured wearing a North Vietnamese Army uniform. The women learn how to sew and are kept busy keeping the camp's administrative offices clean.

John Olson, © 1968, 2018 Stars and Stripes, All Rights Reserved | BUY THIS PHOTO

Special 75th Publication