VIETNAM WAR.

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Chinese Xinhua News Agency press photograph archive. An arresting collection of Vietnam war press photographs, most dated between May 1965 and December 1967, taken by photographers from the official Chinese and North Vietnamese news agencies.One photograph, showing North Vietnamese fishermen drilling with weapons, has been annotated by an editor, showing how this type of photograph and the accompanying officially approved wording were used by local newspapers to substantiate propaganda copy filed from the front line.Also included are two press dispatches profiling two soldiers commended at the First Awards Ceremony for Heroes of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam, each with a portrait photograph.

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