The Most Horrific Photos of Vietnam War

World War Stories - Vietnam War is one of America's unforgotten wars it did not only change the way America handle their diplomatic ways in handling international crisis but it also provide them lesson in dealing guerrilla warfare.   You have read so much about World War 1 Stories in this website and have seen great collection of World War 1 Pictures.  Now we will give you horrific images of what Vietnam war is all about. Vietnam war was considered as one of the bloodiest and longest war the US had experienced. This war cannot be forgotten by most marines, it is where their guts where tested in the jungles of Vietnam. Unique form of warfare the communist Vietnamese had struck to the American forces, Guerrilla Warfare. This Guerrilla warfare has been experienced by Americans in world war II in the jungle of the Philippines. But they were guided by Filipinos back then, while in Vietnam War they were the ones being hunted by the Vietcong. The Viet Cong, a lightly armed South Vietnamese communist-controlled common front, largely fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region and the American forces. Here are the vivid and horrific photos of the Vietnam War.

Viet Cong at War

Viet Cong caught on Patrol

Viet Cong about to fire a mortar

Viet Cong guerrillas on mortar training

VC Guerrillas patrolling the river banks

VC preparing a mine for the in coming marines

The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities. Estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from less than one millionto more than three million.Some 200,000–300,000Cambodians, 20,000–200,000Laotians, and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict.

Firing from their tunnels

Captivity and torture awaits this Vietcong

Digging for ambush attacks

Advancing to the front

Died for country and for love ones

Even women fought for their lands

Execution in the streets

The Collateral Damage

The Vietnam civilians were the ones affected by the War and not the soldiers of both sides. There were thousands of Vietnamese killed and were homeless during the non-stop bombing and assault by US forces. Majority of these civilians gave their support to the Viet cong and the Vietnam People's Army ( North Vietnam Army), than the South Vietnam. The American bombings to the civilian territories causes the declined of support from the civilians. The guerrilla tactics used by the Viet cong causes the massive casualties to the American forces, which in return triggers the US military to bomb areas they doubted as Viet cong base and hideouts. An estimated that 65,000 North Vietnamese Civilians died from 1960-1975. Furthermore, he estimates that in the 1957 to 1975 period the North Vietnamese government executed around 50,000 North Vietnamese civilians (most were executed by 1960).
The Vietnamese communist government in 1995 estimated that 2,000,000 Vietnamese civilians on both sides died in the war. Overall figures for North Vietnamese civilian dead range from 50,000 to several hundred thousand.

The US Airforce carpet bombing

Burn to ashes

Civilians died as they do their everyday living

Civilians died as they do their everyday living

The town in flame

They died while they were just walking the farm

died in crossfire

Civilians joined the Vietcong to find justice from the US bombing

These Children died from the bombs that hit their sweet homes

The Napalm, the killer bomb in Vietnam war

Save my son

The only way to be safe

U.S. napalm bomb strike in South Vietnam, 1966. U.S. dropped more than 338,000 tons of napalm (jellied gasoline) on Vietnam and killed more than 2 million Vietnamese during eight years of war.
The GI's who fought for Freedom in Vietnam
America waged war in Vietnam for a reason to defend the South East Asian territories from communism. Was the Vietnam war worth for the US soldiers to fight for? The war in Vietnam was a waste of lives and money and at the end, America lost. America's eagerness to intervene in a war which is not theirs should something that they have to change. Because whether they win or lose they could not return the lives taken by War.

The Marines who believes they'd fought for freedom

Faces in War

The fight that you knew you will lose.

Battle hardened Marines

They'd fought for freedom with no assurance of winning

The bad terrain bullets awaits them

Explosion and bullets flying that's all you could hear

Fire more

Without Huey, how many marines have died?

The Tet offensive - We were there.

Casualties mounting

Fighting with enemies dedicated to fight for their lands

Hang-on there.. The chopper is coming.

America is leaving

We fought a war for no good reason

Medic!

We all be dead before dawn

Mounting casualties

The US casualty is not high compared to the North Vietnam Army and the South Vietnam Army, but still the number of deaths is enormous for a country who fought for a war which is not theirs.

• 58,267 KIAor noncombat deaths (including the missing)
• 303,644 WIA(including 153,303 who required hospitalization and 150,341 who didn't)
• 1,711 MIA

The Bush administration had not learned from Vietnam War and had sent thousands of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. And once again the American people witnessed the suffering of their soldiers fighting a war which was supposedly a war to be participated by other members of the UN. The aftermath of the War changed the image of Vietnam and for the US, a lesson.