Photo Of The Day Gallery | 80th Anniversary

Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) talks with refugees.

Ted Kennedy talks with refugees in South Vietnam, 1968

An Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) paratrooper is ready to get pulled aboard by Republic of Vietnam Navy after landing in Da Nang river.

Da Nang River, 1968

Swift boat stops sampan on way to market. Yellow-robed Buddhist monk sits in bow.

Gulf of Thailand, 1966

Soldiers rest in their bunker while others fill sand bags and receive daily rations.

Operation Somerset Plain, 1968

Dignitaries Open Tokyo USO

Tokyo USO, 1955

Engineers chopping logs to make a trail to landing zone.

Trail to landing zone, 1968

Pfc. Mike Colwell, 20, E Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division leans against his bunker on top of Hill 937 of Dong Ap Bia, better known to Americans as Hamburger Hill.

Hamburger Hill, 1969

Village shot in An Thoi.

An Thoi, Vietnam, 1966