Many Americans think they know the full story of the Vietnam War, but there's a side of the conflict few of them have seen -- how the North Vietnamese media covered the war. National Geographic Video: Vietnam's Unseen War is a documentary hosted by photographer Tim Page, who visits former soldiers and journalists on both sides of this 30-year struggle and uses the work of North Vietnamese photojournalists to offer an unusual perspective on the tragic consequences of the war, and how it shaped Vietnam's political and economic climate.
View Vietnams unseen war. Video hosted on Guba. This documentary depicts the war behind the war in Vietnam. The war caught on film and photo by North Vietnamese photographers. Tim Page, the legendary British photojournalist, brings the most painful personal experiences of the North Vietnamese photographers, civilians, and soldiers to viewers in the West. Doan Cong Tinh, a soldier in the North Vietnamese Army, was known as the King of the Battlefield. He carried both a gun and a camera on the battlefield to tell the story of the war through his photos. Van Bao was a civilian photographer documenting the war, Mai Nam and Le Minh Troung documented the French and American wars. Take an up-close look at their rare images depicting the war as seen by them.
The Vietnam War (also known as the Second Indochina War, the American War in Vietnam and the Vietnam Conflict) occurred from 1959 to April 30, 1975. The war successfully reunified the Vietnamese under a communist government which consisted of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam) and the indigenous National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam, (also known the Viet Cong or VC, or derogatively as Charlie). To a degree, the war may be viewed as a Cold War conflict between the U.S., its allies, and the Republic of Vietnam on one side, and the Soviet Union, its allies, the People's Republic of China, and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on the other. Others, however, viewed the conflict as a civil war between communist and non-communist Vietnamese factions.
The U.S. deployed large numbers of troops to South Vietnam between the end of the First Indochina War in 1954, and 1973. Some U.S. allies also contributed forces. U.S. military advisers first became involved in Vietnam in 1950, assisting French colonial forces. In 1956, these advisers assumed full responsibility for training the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. President John F. Kennedy increased America's troop numbers from 500 to 16,000. Large numbers of combat troops were dispatched by President Lyndon Johnson beginning in 1965. Almost all U.S. military personnel departed after the Paris Peace Accords of 1973. The last American troops left the country on April 30, 1975.
At various stages the conflict involved clashes between small units patrolling the mountains and jungles, amphibious operations, guerrilla attacks on the villages, and cities and large-scale conventional battles. U.S. aircraft also conducted massive aerial bombing, targeting North Vietnam's cities, industries and logistical networks. Cambodia and Laos were drawn into the conflict.
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