Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYVillage protection effort in Vietnam, 1962
Stars and Stripes
November 8, 2016
Al Chang ©Stars and StripesSouth Vietnam, April, 1962: The nearly-completed watch tower from which settlers in a Vietnamese village 50 miles north of Saigon can protect themselves in the event of a Viet Cong attack is part of a defense project designed to switch the burden of protection from regular army forces.