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The Vietnam War: Canada's Role, Part Two: The Boat People. Transcript of a CBC Radio broadcast. Vietnam War Resisters in Canada Archived August 12, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, hosted by Vancouver Community Network. Annotated guide to texts and websites from the 1960s to the present. Compiled by scholar Joseph Jones. Vietnamese Community in ...
War Story is a Canadian television documentary series, which has aired on History since 2012. [1] Airing between six and thirteen episodes per season, the series examines stories of Canada's military participation in war .
Maclear visited Vietnam during the production of the series and while he was there, he was granted access to film material. He was the first Western journalist to be allowed to visit Vietnam since the end of the war. The documentary series was consolidated into 13 hour-long episodes for American television syndication. [1]
The Girl in the Picture: The Kim Phúc Story, the Photograph and the Vietnam War, by Denise Chong, is a 1999 biographical and historical book tracing the life story of Phúc. Chong's historical coverage emphasizes the life, especially the school and family life, of Phúc from before the attack, through convalescence, and into the present time.
The documentary depicts scenes such as American military personnel on board the USNS General Simon B. Buckner, the pilot of a US Skyraider aircraft on a napalm bombing raid; life in Vietnam, Vietnamese people, Vietnamese villages, and the Mekong Delta. It also depicts interviews and discussions, such as American servicemen explaining why they ...
“The Stringer” is a documentary mystery about a deadly serious subject: the true authorship of the famous Vietnam War photograph, taken on June 8, 1972, in the town of Trảng Bàng, that ...
Opposition to the war turns militant and the counter-culture rises to its peak: [15] 92,000 soldiers were declared deserters, with tens of thousand fleeing to Canada, France and Sweden; [16] thousands of soldiers organize and participate in Armed Forces Day demonstrations at 19 military bases on May 15, 1971; [17] drug use is rampant and ...
The war changed all that. This photo by radio operator Chuck Herstein shows Marine Lt. Jack Hawkins using binoculars to call in artillery and air support during a mission in Vietnam in May of 1968.