Yankee Air Pirates: U.S. Air Force Uniforms and Memorabilia of the Vietnam War: Vol.1: Command & Control • Tactical Control • Forward Air Control

A 1960s Bancroft green beret. This is a private purchase. The beret is signed Wilson. Size fits 7 1/4. The De Opresso Liber badge is slightly oxidized green on the back. The vinyl insert and lining is cigarette burned in one spot. Overall the beret is in very nice condition.

11th Cavalry patch in black and green with cut edge.

Stock packed Suspenders, Equipment, Nylon M-1967.

Used M1956 field bottle cover. This is a model with silon trim.

Set of original South Vietnam propaganda leaflets.

Unused M1956 braces from 1973. The inner side is not cotton but nylon. Size Large.

Hook M 1956 1st Pattern - Large

Used US Ontario machete. Scabbard Marmac year of manufacture 1966. There is a tooth on the blade see photo.

Original packed hat in ERDL camouflage. Size 7 1/8. Contract DSA 100-69-C-0225.

Unused US Army P38 can opener.

Lightly used blouse in ERDL camouflage. Size XL-R. Contract DSA 100-70-C-0473.

The Associated Press made an unprecedented commitment to reporting the conflict: It gathered an extraordinary group of superb photojournalists in its Saigon bureau and these men created one of the great photographic legacies of the twentieth century. Collected here are images that tell the human story of the Vietnam War, as we watch the American presence in the war swell from a trickle of military advisers in the late 1950s, through dramatic operations involving thousands of soldiers in the 1960s, to the fall of Saigon in 1975. These are pictures that both recorded and made history, taken by unbelievably courageous photojournalists. In a moving essay, writer Pete Hamill, who reported from Vietnam in 1965, celebrates their achievement, focusing on five masters who took many of the photographs in the book: Horst Faas, Henri Huet, Eddie Adams, Nick Ut, and Phuoc Van Dang.