Indochina 2009

Photos by Adam Jones

These photos were taken during two months in Indochina
(Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) from May to July 2009.

Photo Gallery 47: Vietnam - Hanoi

This gallery: scenes from two Hanoi institutions, the Ho Chi Minh Museum and the Army Museum.

I.

This photo and following: at the Ho Chi Minh Museum, commemorating the great nationalist
and revolutionary leader (1890-1969). More interesting for the crowds than the exhibits.

II.

III.

While we were at the museum, it was inundated by young Army inductees (visible also
in the previous photo). This shot is perhaps the more captivating for its technical failure.

IV.

There's just something about a woman in uniform ...

V.

A display juxtaposing the moment of liberation (April 30, 1975: a North Vietnamese tank crashing
through the gates of the presidential palace in Saigon; see also below) with some of the
anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in the US.

VI.

This photo and following: at the very interesting Army Museum; here, the snout of a MiG-21
fighter credited with downing 14 US planes.

VII.

VIII.

IX.

The accumulated detritus of downed US planes stands outside the museum, accompanied by
the famous photo of a North Vietnamese woman dragging off part of a figher-jet from its watery grave.

X.

This photo and following: tank 843, a Soviet-built T-54 -- the one at right in the photo below,
shown charging into the presidential palace on April 30, 1975.

XI.

XII.

These bicycles, loaded with goods and materiel, were the workhorses of the "Ho Chi Minh Trail"
through eastern Laos and Cambodia, supplying resistance fighters of the National Liberation Front (NLF) in the south.

XIII.

Diorama of the famous Cu Chi tunnels in the Mekong delta of South Vietnam, where up to 7,000
NLF fighters holed up at a time.

XIV.

Badges of the US antiwar movement.

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