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 Church in the Village  #6512
Humanity
and Geography
of a Nation
At War

 

Most of the more "modern" small towns were centered around the Church. This one building served as their place of worship,  the community center,  sometimes the Hospital and last, but not  least, a fortress for defense.  A definite perimeter is visable.
   Vietnam was then about one-third Roman Catholic,  and some of the churches built in even the smallest of towns and hamlets were magnificent structures considering the lack of suitable raw materiels. This little town was adjacent to one of the Michelin rubber plantations,  just north of Saigon.  The actual rubber trees can be seen in this photo, on this side of the road,  in the foreground.
  This photograph was taken while flying cover (recon) for a major firefight taking place only a few hundred yards from the town.  The artillery craters are just out of the camera's view.
 
 
 
Church in the Village

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