Soldiers carry a wounded comrade through the swamps of Vietnam, 1969.

A soldier stands guard in an observation tower as a chaplain holds mass, July 1967.

An American GI keeps track of the time he has left on his "short time" helmet, 1968.

A Navy nurse checks the medical chart of a Marine aboard a hospital ship off the coast of South Vietnam, April 1966.

Vietnam War protesters in Wichita, Kansas, 1967.

The bodies of U.S. Marines lie half buried after a long and bloody battle at Khe Sanh, 1968.

A U.S. lieutenant, a prisoner of war until 1973, is met by his family at a military base in California upon his return from Vietnam.

A Vietnamese woman carries her wounded child away from the fighting; warfare continued for two years following the departure of U.S. troops in 1973.

With the fall of Saigon and the end to the war in Vietnam, Time magazine deems the late Ho Chi Minh "The Victor," May 1975.