Historic Gallery | 80th Anniversary

A South Vietnamese marine gives a cigarette to a Viet Cong prisoner in the aftermath of a battle 65 miles southwest of Saigon.

A smoke for a prisoner, 1967

A U.S. Marine holds out his M-16 rifle to pull a wounded comrade to safety during the battle for the city of Hue.

Pulled to safety, 1968

Gesturing toward his beard, a Vietnamese man tries to convince an infantryman who's checking his identity papers that he's too old to be a Viet Cong soldier.

Questioning a suspect, 1967

Their machine gun mounted on a kitchen table, U.S. Marines take position on a battle-scarred Hue street amid the bloody effort to retake the city during the Tet offensive.

Marines in Hue, 1968

Newly-arrived troops of 6th Battalion, 31st Infantry, 9th Infantry Division pick up their rifles from crates on the airport tarmac.

Reunited with their weapons, 1968

A U.S. Marine on a street in Hue during the hard-fought battle for the city.

U.S. Marine at Hue, 1968

An armored troop carrier is silhouetted against the sun on the My Tho River, 65 miles from Saigon, where Americans from the 9th Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Riverine Force and South Vietnamese from the 5th Vietnamese Marine Battalion were engaged in a day-long battle that ended with 235 Viet Cong reported killed.

My Tho River, 1967

A corpsman treats a wounded U.S. Marine amid the rubble of the Dong Ba Tower during the hard-fought battle for control of Hue's citadel.

Wounded Marine at Hue, 1968