In June, 1969, a large black and white photograph of Army Spec. William C. Gearing Jr. of Greece, N.Y., filled the cover of Life Magazine. Gearing, 20, had been drafted in May 1968, a year out of ...

A look back at more than two dozen Vietnam War-related LIFE magazine covers, from the early 1960s through the early 1970s. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe.

All the more remarkable that in January of 1963, LIFE magazine published the powerful cover article, “We Wade Deeper Into Jungle War,” and illustrated it with not one or two photos but with a ...

Released prisoner of war Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm is greeted by his family at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, as he returns home from the Vietnam War, March 17, 1973.

There are tragic images – Bobby Kennedy lying mortally wounded as a bus boy looks up in sorrow, shots of war from Spain to France to Vietnam. And then the special slices of Life – pun intended ...

Between 1936 and 1972, Life magazine published images that helped to mythologise the US. A new book looks at iconic pictures that shaped how we view a nation, writes Aida Amoako.

Over 50,000 Americans died in the Vietnam war and from the draft to popular anti-imperialist sentiments, its impact is still felt today. Here are 22 more photos of what life looked like during the ...

The Point Team Honor Guard of Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 154 presented fellow member Richard Schlagel a framed copy of a photo depicting him and others that appeared in LIFE Magazine in 1968.

That’s when Olson snapped one of the most stirring images of the Vietnam War. Advertisement Olson was also a stringer for Life magazine, which ran the photo across two pages in the March 6, 1968 ...