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Lê Minh Trường
Lê Minh Trường (1930–2011) was a North Vietnamese photographer during the Vietnam War, Second Indochina War. Early years Lê Minh Trường was born in 1930 in Thua Thien, Huế, Hue. Career Lê fought for the Viet Minh and was part of the unit that escorted Souphanouvong, Prince Souphanouvong from North Vietnam to the caves at the headquarters of the Pathet Lao. In 1956, he was seriously wounded in the head by a piece of flying shrapnel and was declared unfit to continue in a combat unit. This led to his reassignment as a photographer with the Vietnamese News Agency in 1958 where he was tasked with photographing the Ho Chi Minh trail. Lê travelled alone and worked with few supplies in the harsh conditions of the mountains and forests, often using water from the Mekong Delta and the cover of the night sky to develop his film. Accolades Lê won first prize at the National Photography Exhibition of 1969 and 1971. References {{authority control 1930 births 2011 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by #Names, other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states, while the south was United States in the Vietnam War, supported by the United States and other anti-communism, anti-communist Free World Military Forces, allies. The war is widely considered to be a Cold War-era proxy war. It lasted almost 20 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973. The conflict also spilled over into neighboring states, exacerbating the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist states by 1975. After the French 1954 Geneva Conference, military withdrawal from Indochina in 1954 – following their defeat in the First Indochina War – the Viet Minh to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
