12 Photographs That Bring Home The Horrors Of The Vietnam War

    40 years since the Fall of Saigon and we still remember the dream they left behind. (Quotes from West End musical Miss Saigon)

    Eddie Adams’ Pultizer Award winning 1968 photo of a South Vietnamese general executing a suspected Viet Cong prisoner seared the horror and brutality of the Vietnam War into the global consciousness. Through the 20 years of the war from 1955 until the Fall of Saigon in 1975, hundreds of photojournalists captured unforgettable images of tragedy, compassion and desperation.