Image:Vietnam child soldier.jpg

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Description

Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam, 1968. A twelve year old Vietnamese ARVN Airborne trooper who had been "adopted" by the Airborne Division, holding a M-79 grenade launcher. The picture was taken during a sweep of an Airborne Task Force Unit through the devastated area surrounding the French National Cemetery on Plantation Road after a day long battle there.
Source
This image is available from the Archival Research Catalog of the National Archives and Records Administration under the ARC Identifier 530623.
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The master image comes from a NARA mirror site (21Mb TIFF from badly deteriorated film material).
Date

May 7, 1968
Author

U.S. Signal Corps
Permission
(Reusing this image)
Public domain This image is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
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Retouched picture This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: minor crop to remove film frame, color restoration, de-noise, some scratch removal, haze removal (some areas), minor sharpening (some areas).

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