US Demobag

Unused M-16 Rifle Butt Pocket and Strap Assembly.

Unused Trousers Trousers, Man's, Cotton, Wind Resistant, Rips-stop, Poplin. Size X-Large Regular. DSA Contract 100-69-C-2149. Manufactured by M.L.W. Corporation.

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

Used M1956 suspenders from 1973. Inner side is not cotton but nylon. Size Large.

Stock packed Suspenders, Equipment, Nylon M-1967.

XM3 bipod for M-16 rifle. With pouch and cleaning kit. Manufacturer Colt.

Used MACV patch—design with a thin edge.

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.