The Nam! Our bloodiest war against socialism in photos Part 2

The military learned a lesson from Nam. Never allow photographers and journalists into war zones again. Don't let people see what war really is.

Terrified children under fire by North Vietnamese snipers cling to their moms while a paratrooper from 173rd Airborne assembles a grenade launcher.

South Vietnamese women and children duck from North Vietnamese sniper fire

This is part 1 if you missed it:

A South Vietnamese woman crying over a plastic bag containing the remains of her husband, April 1969. He was found in a mass grave of civilians murdered in 1968 by Vietcong forces during the Huế Massacre as part of the Tet Offensive. Photo taken by Larry Barrows, who was killed in 1971.

A crewman from a downed CH-21 Shawnee ( Flying Banana) flees the copter before it is blown up to keep from falling into North Vietnamese hands.

A child wounded by North Vietnamese sniper fire discovers her parents are dead.

Buddhists protest the war in Saigon

Protest as soldiers go off to Vietnam

After supplies and weapons were found in a Viet Cong tunnel network, a soldier burns a nearby hut used for rice storage by the Viet Cong. Bien Hoa. January 1966.

Vietnamese Army personnel interrogate a Viet Cong prisoner. June 1962.

Four prisoners captured in a Viet Cong tunnel complex wait for transfer to a prisoner-of-war camp. Thanh Dien. January 1967.

1965: In the jungle area of Ben Cat, U.S. paratroopers carry their weapons above water in the rain while they search for Viet Cong troops. Photographer Henri Huet would later die in 1971, when the helicopter that he and three other photojournalists were in was shot down.

Behind the paywall: Tet Offensive Documentary