Cambodia US Withdrawal and Cambodian Refugees
CAMBODIA. 1970
Cambodia US Withdrawal and Cambodian Refugees
CAMBODIA. Car salesmen used to follow soldiers into the field to make their sales ("so the boys will have a real reason for wanting to get home in one piece"). As the fighting intensified, they found it safer to send catalogs. 1970
Cambodia US Withdrawal and Cambodian Refugees
CAMBODIA. This woman was the soul survivor of a communications squad caught in the open. Wounded in the spine, she was forced to crouch all day with her hands tied behind her back before being taken off by helicopter. 1970
Cambodia US Withdrawal and Cambodian Refugees
CAMBODIA. Prisoners of war were afforded very different treatment by each side. Americans were treated reasonably (the ranting of the MIA movement in America aside), whereas captured Vietcong were tortured, raped, and killed. Some ended in the tiger-cages of the U.S. administered Con Son prison, where conditions would have staggered a Spanish Inquisitor. 1970
Cambodia US Withdrawal and Cambodian Refugees
CAMBODIA. 1970.