OSS Deer Team members pose with Viet Minh leaders Hồ Chí Minh and Võ Nguyên Giáp during training at Tan Trao, Vietnam, in August 1945.[1600×1009]

Comments

1. xanadumuse

   I only know pieces of this story through my dad who served during the war. Was this covered in the Ken Burns series?

2. ShapeUpOrShivOut

   Hi Chi Minh used to be a big fan of the U.S. He saw them as a nation that could help free colonized countries all around the world. Unfortunately that didn’t work out the way he thought it would

3. UnflushableStinky2

   One of those pictures where you think of how close we were to a better outcome only to fuck it all up.