From BBC
Marines scatter as a helicopter burns in the background after being shot down by the Viet Cong. (Photo: Horst Fass/AP – July 1966)
Historians argue over exactly when the Vietnam War started – but in the United States, events to mark some of the conflict’s 50th anniversaries have begun.

In a new 50th anniversary book – Vietnam, The Real War – the US news agency Associated Press has chosen some of its most powerful images, taken by photographers embedded with US troops fighting the Communist Viet Cong.
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