One of the most important stories that LIFE Magazine would ever cover was the Vietnam War. From sending photographers to the trenches to covering the stories of draft dodgers and deserters, LIFE Magazines during the 1960s explored every aspect of the most highly televised conflict in history. LIFE Magazine would do it’s part to shape the story, as well.
The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians.
Opposition to the war in the United States bitterly divided Americans, even after President Richard Nixon ordered the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973. Communist forces ended the war by seizing control of South Vietnam in 1975, and the country was unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam the following year.
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| Life Magazine (October 27, 1961) Advisers in Vietnam, mans eye |
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| Life Magazine (January 25, 1963) Mekong Delta |
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| Life Magazine (November 15, 1963) South Vietnam soldiers |
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Life Magazine (March 20, 1964) Henry Cabot Lodge in Vietnam
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| Life Magazine (June 12, 1964) Patrol in Vietnam |
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| Life Magazine (August 21, 1964) South Vietnam’s General Khanh |
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| Life Magazine (November 27, 1964) Vietnam GIs |
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| Life Magazine (April 16, 1965) U.S. helicopter crew, Yankee Papa |
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| Life Magazine (July 2, 1965) Wounded marine evacuated in Vietnam |
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| Life Magazine (August 6, 1965) U.S. Navy vs. Vietcong |
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| Life Magazine, August 20, 1965 – Draft inductees |
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| Life Magazine (November 26, 1965) Vietcong prisoner |
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| Life Magazine (January 14, 1966) Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh and Pham Van Dong |
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| Life Magazine (February 11, 1966) Wounded GIs in Vietnam |
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| Life Magazine (February 25, 1966) Dawn mission over South Vietnam |
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| Life Magazine (October 28, 1966) Wounded marine |
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| Life Magazine (November 4, 1966) President Johnson goes to Vietnam |
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| Life Magazine (January 13, 1967) Navy patrol in Mekong River |
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| Life Magazine (March 10, 1967) U.S. paratroopers over Vietnam |
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| Life Magazine (April 7, 1967) Hanoi air-raid alert |
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| Life Magazine (May 26, 1967) General Lew Walt |
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| Life Magazine (August 25, 1967) Marine and young Vietnamese friend |
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| Life Magazine (October 27, 1967) GI at Con Thien |
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| Life Magazine (February 16, 1968) North Vietnamese soldiers |
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| Life Magazine (March 22, 1968) Ho Chi Minh |
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| Life Magazine (November 8, 1968) Vietnam war victim |
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| Life Magazine (June 27, 1969) American dead in Vietnam |
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| Life Magazine (September 6, 1969) Woodstock |
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| Life Magazine (October 24, 1969) Composite: Dissent |
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| Life Magazine (May 15, 1970) Wounded Kent State student |
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| Life Magazine (May 22, 1970) Composite: Our Forgotten Wounded |
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| Life Magazine (January 29, 1971) Bob Hope |
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| Life Magazine (March 12, 1971) South Vietnamese soldiers in Laos |
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| Life Magazine, January 21, 1972 – Single U.S. Vietnam casualty in a week |
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| Life Magazine (May 12, 1972) Vietnam soldier carries wounded buddy |
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| Life Magazine (November 10, 1972) Navy POW |
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