Vietnam 1972: The Murderous Endgame.
The Sunday Times, 25.06.1972.

This was one of Don McCullin’s great stories on Vietnam and one of the most dramatic displays of photojournalism, at which the Sunday Times Magazine excelled beyond any other publication before or since. It was published at the height of that genre. We had been sent out to Vietnam on the news that the North Vietnamese were galvanising and moving South to begin the last phase of their war. This time they had come out of the tunnels and were using conventional warfare: Russian T-54 tanks and infantry. Vietnamisation was the euphemism for the US pullout, leaving it to the South Vietnamese army to defend themselves and their country, with a few American advisers and their Cobra gunships. The result was carnage, as McCullin shows. The peace treaty was signed in January 1973.

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