Black and white photograph of the Vietnam Peace Parade anti-war demonstration that took place in New York City. On this day in April of 1969, the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade committee organized the demonstration that assembled near Bryant Park with a…

Black and white photograph of the Vietnam Peace Parade anti-war demonstration that took place in New York City. On this day in April of 1969, the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade committee organized the demonstration that assembled near Bryant Park with a…

Black and white photograph of the Vietnam Peace Parade anti-war demonstration that took place in New York City. On this day in April of 1969, the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade committee organized the demonstration that assembled near Bryant Park with a…

Black and white photograph of the Vietnam War Moratorium event held in Chicago, Illinois. The "Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam" was a large scale demonstration and teach-in across the United States intended to support the cessation of the war…

Black and white photograph of the Vietnam War Moratorium event held in Chicago, Illinois. The "Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam" was a large scale demonstration and teach-in across the United States intended to support the cessation of the war…

Black and white photograph of the Vietnam War Moratorium event held in Chicago, Illinois. The "Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam" was a large scale demonstration and teach-in across the United States intended to support the cessation of the war…

Corpsman attending to wounded soldier who had tripped a booby-trapped hand grenade in the 3/27th Marine's area.

Booby-trapped U.S. 105 mm howitzer round that Oakes stepped on. The round failed to detonate because the dirt around it gave way.

Patrol during Operation Allen Brook. Right after Oakes took the picture, North Vietnamese machine guns began firing from the opposite bank.

Engineers placing C-4 around the bobby-trapped U.S. 105 mm howitzer round that Oakes stepped on.

White object in the center-right of the photo is a live 81 mm illumination round that went through Oakes' poncho and landed between his head and the Gunnery Sgt's head during a night firing in a rain storm.

Da Nang, Spring 1968. 122 mm rockets captured in the rocket belt south of Da Nang transported on a mule motorized cart to Camp Dong Son.