Historic Gallery | 80th Anniversary

Zippo fires napalm as a fire boat does some target practice on My Tho river.

Target practice on My Tho river, 1968

AP photographer Horst Faas in the doorway of the Associated Press Saigon bureau.

Associated Press Saigon bureau, 1963

Vietnam soliders celebrate atop a broken tank.

Vietnam soldiers in Saigon, 1963

A Vietnam Marine holds a coup trophy, Nov. 1, 1963. Vietnam Marine celebrates on the streets of Saigon after the successful coup deposing president Ngo Dinh Diem November 1, 1963.

Vietnam Marine, 1963

500-pound bombs are lined up on the flight deck of the USS America before being loaded onto jet planes. Visible behind the ammunition is a A-7A Corsair II (left) and a A-6A Intruder.

USS America flight deck, 1968

Sgt. Robert S. Blue, alias "Little Boy Blue," blows his horn daily for retreat at Camp Casey, headquarters of the U.S. 7th Inf. Div. in Korea. Blue is a member of the 7th Inf. Div. Band.

Little Boy Blue, 1963

Some 125 families have moved out of Washington Heights 500 block so far to make way for an Olympic Gymnasium, part of the Olympic Village that will be home to thousands of althletes for the 1964 Olympics. Destruction of the 500 block will begin in December.[cg]

Washington Heights, 1962

A member of the flight deck crew of the USS America signals to a helicopter approaching for a landing on the air carriers flight deck.

USS America flight deck, 1968