Vietnam War
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The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
The Fairlea Five were jailed in 1971 for campaigning against military conscription.
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Dien Bien Phu
The French surrender at the siege of Dien Bien Phu ended their colonial rule of Vietnam
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Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels
A Vietnamese war veteran on life in the Viet Cong's tunnel network in South Vietnam
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Mass Graves in Hue, Vietnam
US troops discovered victims of the Communist Tet offensive in Hue city in 1968
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Vietnam Photographer
The great British war photographer Don McCullin remembers the Vietnam war.
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US Psychological Warfare in Vietnam
How American military PSYOP teams waged war in Vietnam in the 1960s
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The My Lai massacre
On 16 March 1968, US soldiers went on the rampage through a Vietnamese village.
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War Photographer, Dickey Chapelle
Photographer Dickey Chapelle was the first woman war reporter to be killed in Vietnam
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Ron Kovic - Ex US Marine and peace activist
How ex-US Marine Ron Kovic became a peace activist after being paralysed in Vietnam
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Muhammad Ali and the Draft
How the boxing champion's refusal to go to Vietnam made him a hero to 1960s radicals
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Vietnam draft pardon
In January 1977 President Jimmy Carter said draft dodgers could come home.
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Kim Phuc's Story
In 1972 a photo of a little Vietnamese girl, burned and crying, shocked the world.
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Socceroos in Vietnam—Sporting Witness
How Australia's footballers won their first international tournament in Saigon in 1967.
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The Pentagon Papers
The man behind one of the most important security breaches in US history tells his story.
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Vietnam War - Christmas bombing campaign
40 years ago the US launched its heaviest aerial bombardment of the Vietnam War.
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American prisoners in Vietnam
After their release in 1973, former US prisoners of war began to talk about torture.
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Fall of Saigon
When Saigon fell in 1975 the Vietnam War ended. Two eyewitnesses tell their stories.
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Operation Babylift
As the Vietnam war ended the US tried to fly thousands of orphans out of the country.
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Vietnamese Boat People Arrive in Britain
Some of the first Vietnamese refugees arrive in Britain after a dramatic rescue at sea.
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