From the book "Vietnam Inc." Philip Jones Griffiths

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

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



The battle for Saigon. In vremyaprazdnika Tet and again in May Vietcong hit Saigon. They focus on areas of residence of the middle class, who were duly destroyed firepower of the United States.



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



US combat troops arrive, outnumbering 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 by the spectacle of their own strength, and cold beer delivered to them on a daily basis.



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



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





The water was a big problem. These GI refill their flasks during monsoon showers ...



Ten-year soldiers South Vietnam, famous for the fact that he had killed two "representatives of female staff VC" (rumored to be his teacher and mother).





WOUNDED Viet Cong ... GIs often show compassion to the enemy, which arises out of admiration for his confidence and courage. The Viet Cong for three days as a shot in the stomach. His intestines collected in an enamel pot, borrowed from his wife stunned peasant and made bandage around the body. When he was carried to the headquarters for questioning, he asked for a drink. "Once he Viet Cong, let drink dirty water," said a Vietnamese translator, pointing to the brown water flooded rice paddies. With genuine anger GI told him to shut up, then hissed: "Any soldier who can fight for three days with a wound can drink from my jar at any time!»

GI restore power after the real possibility of dying from American bullets, covering the fire was not accurate when the GIs were retreating, hiding in a trench from 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 late 1970s 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 to twelve years and they have always hated 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 errors surveillance devices that can continuously track the enemy and the need for greater power to establish superiority in force, will be less important. »



General Westmoreland.



DOWNLOADED BOMB plane takes off from the deck. Intended for the organization of emergency missions over long distances, avinostsy are wastes resources of people and technology. Large number of accidents. As an example, this aircraft carrier, two different type of aircraft: those lighter often fell into the sea during take-off, and those that heavier - crashed during landing.



Detained suspects. Anyone who was a man aged 15 to 50 years is 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. Soldiers near the Americal Division operating in Quang Ngai province for six months prior to the events in the My Lai.





If there had been Vietcong sniper, he would have received a lot of lung purposes because after the artillery fire stopped, GIs were vulnerable groups, very dejectedly telling each other about what they plan to horrible torture for artillery commander on his return to base .



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



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



BALANCES unnecessary uniforms collected in huge piles as ground hostilities are nearing the end. Helmets discarded as too large in size for the Vietnamese.



Wounded. Perhaps nothing shows brighter degree of American indifference to the suffering of the Vietnamese than the enormous disparity between the money and the forces expended to destroy the Viet Cong, and the attitude towards the victims - of course, by accident - civilians protected by US Army troops from the Viet Cong.

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