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Title: Escape through cemetery, Escape through cemetery
Identifier: e_ea_0133
Creator: Adams, Eddie, 1933-2004
Topic: Military History & War
Dates: 1966
Resource: Eddie Adams photographic archive
Description: Photograph of U.S. soldiers under fire. Associated Press caption reads: ’ A group of U.S. 1st Cavelry Division soldiers, several of them wounded, race through Viet Cong sniper fire to reach helecopter in a cemetery in Haoi Chau Jan. 31. Sand and airblasts from helecopter rotor whip at them as they dash through the cemetary, dodging gravestones and enemy fire. Troops of the unit which were not evecuated on helecopter were caught in a deadly crossfire when friendly South Vietnamese troops mistakenly opened fire on them from opposite side of enemy fire. This is one of a series by associated press photographer Eddie Adams.’

Title: Pilot Leslie R. Leavoy, Pilot Leslie R. Leavoy
Identifier: e_ea_0879
Creator: Adams, Eddie, 1933-2004
Dates: 1966
Resource: Eddie Adams photographic archive
Description: AP caption reads: "Pilot Leslie R. Leavoy is shown in flight with other jets in the background in Vietnam, 1966. (AP Photo/Eddie Adams)"