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A Human Record of War: Life magazine, 1965

urrows’s 21 black-and-white shots of a Marine helicopter crew on a mission near Da Nang are, by now, among the most recognizable images of the Vietnam War—14 brief pages of photographs in a popular news magazine, the record of a single day in the lives of four or five young Marines. One needs to recall that in the spring of 1965, the American escalation in Vietnam was in its early days—not far removed from the Kennedy and Eisenhower era of socalled “advisers.” For that reason,

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