What actually removed - from the book "Vietnam Inc." by Phillip Jones Griffiths (28 photos) Bashny.Net

For a captured Vietcong there is no request for mercy. They firmly follow the noble tradition of sacrificing life for the country.


battle for Saigon. During the Tet holiday and again in May, the Vietcong struck Saigon. They focus on the areas of residence of the middle class, who were duly destroyed by firepower the United States.


Problems with air cover and artillery support is that it can often be too close.


US combat troops arrive, outnumbering the enemy 3 to 1 and having the most modern weapons; their work seems easy. At the beginning of the fighting spirit was high among men, intoxicated spectacle of their own strength, and cold beer delivered to them every day.


Rice - the main food. But it's more than just food for the Vietnamese - this is the meaning of their existence. A cross between the religious beliefs of the Company (the moral values) and the need to grow rice. For the Vietnamese rice has the same value as for a Catholic prosvirki.


CREDIT. Marine shows a peasant girl with a cigarette filter. From all parts of the US forces in Vietnam, Marine Corps showed in dealing with the civilian population most innitsiativu.




The water was a big problem. These GIs refill their canteens during the monsoon showers ...


Ten soldiers in South Vietnam, famous for having killed two "representatives of female staff VC" (rumored to be his teacher and mother).


Personal hygiene - particularly Vietnamese - has always been a concern of Americans.




WOUNDED VETKONGOVETS ... GIs often show compassion for the enemy, which arises out of admiration for his courage and confidence. This vetkongovets three days as the wounded in the stomach. His intestines were gathered in an enamel pot, borrowed from the farmer's wife stunned and made bandage around the body. When he was carried to headquarters for questioning, he asked for a drink. "If he vetkongovets, let him drink dirty water," said a Vietnamese interpreter, pointing to the water-drenched brown rice plantation. With genuine anger GIs ordered him to shut up, then he muttered: "Any soldier who can fight for three days with a wound can drink from my jar at any time!»


GI restore power after a real possibility killed by American bullets, covering the fire was not accurate when the GIs were retreating, hiding in a trench on the Viet Cong sniper.


Landing on the beachhead more likely to commit to drunken parties than to attack the enemy. As the war has become more automated process, the soldiers had more leisure. By the end of 1970 the coast lights glowed with preparing barbecue grills.


VIETNAMESE GIRLS, despite their great beauty, very bad prostitutes, because they do not know anything about the methods of seduction and hate their customers. Perhaps they are the most internally clamped women outside the Islamic world, they are thrust into prostitution with twelve years and they always hate this occupation.




AUTOMATED WAR ... The strategic concept of the war was predicted by General Westmoreland in 1969 .: "enemy forces ... will be evaluated and monitored through the channels of communication, computer data processing and automatically directed fire. After the first tests will be eliminated error surveillance devices that can continuously track the enemy and the need for large forces to establish superiority in force, will be less important. »




General Westmoreland.


DOWNLOADED BOMB plane takes off from the deck. Designed for the organization of emergency missions over long distances, avinostsy are wastes resources of people and equipment. The number of accidents is great. As an example, this aircraft carrier, two different types of aircraft: those that are lighter, often fell into the sea on take-off, and those that are harder - crashed during landing.


Detained suspects. Anyone who was a man aged 15 to 50 years old are automatically suspected of involvement in the Viet Cong and doproshivalsya. After the traumatic experience of arrest and interrogation of each released immediately tempted to join the Viet Cong.


MOTHER AND CHILD, shortly before being killed. Near soldiers Americal Division operating in Quang Ngai Province six months before the events in the My Lai.


If nearby was a Viet Cong sniper, he would get a lot of light purposes because after the artillery ceased fire, GIs were vulnerable groups, is very dejectedly telling each other about the terrible torture they plan for the artillery commander on his return to base .




Wounded children, who, like most of the civilian casualties, was struck indiscriminately used by American firepower. Lying boy was on his way to the church in a safe area when helicopters strafing the Viet Cong positions at a distance of 300 yards, the missile missed and wounded him. He died later in the hospital.


AFTER the fight was over, people were allowed to return to their former homes - or rather what's left of them. The government paid compensation to the owner for each of twenty dollars, unless, of course, the owners were still alive.


BALANCES unnecessary uniforms collected in huge piles, as ground fighting draws to a close. Helmets discarded as too large in size for the Vietnamese.


Wounded. Perhaps nothing shows the brighter the level of US indifference to the suffering of the Vietnamese than the huge disparity between the money and the forces expended to destroy the Vietcong, and the attitude towards the victims - of course, by accident - civilians protected by the US Army on the orders of the Viet Cong.