现年66岁、曾经参加过越南战争的美国摄影师詹姆斯•斯皮德•亨辛格近日披露出一组由他自己拍摄的老照片。照片摄于1970年4月的一个夜晚,地点位于越南岘港市附近的美军营,当时美军正在向越方开火,火光四射,战况激烈。


为了炸死一名越兵,美军不惜轰炸一整座山
四下顿成一片火海,战况惨烈

Opening salvo: The assault on the sniper's position begins withrounds fired from the 40mm auto-cannons on an M42 anti-aircrafttank
The soldiers then launched flares into the hills, as a pair of M-60machine guns in guard towers began pelting the woods with hot lead.The machine gun's tracer bullets can be seen in red

The U.S. soldiers were trying to kill a Viet Cong sniper whoroutinely fired on the camp from the safety of the rockoutcroppings

James Speed Hensinger was a 22-year-old soldier when he set hisNikon camera to take long exposures. He didn't know what to expectwhen he sent the film off to be developed. What he got back isnothing short of incredible

The M42 tank's .50-caliber machine guns up fire - lighting up thehills. The soldiers didn't know there the sniper was - they werehoping to hit him with the massive barrage


A man is seen walking through a rice paddy in the South Vietnamesetown of Phu Tai, where Hendinger was stationed

Hensinger also captured the simple, agrarian beauty of theVietnamese countryside

Hensinger has never released his photos publicly until now. Theframes from April 1970 capture a time near the end of the war

Self-portrait: Hensinger was 22 and had been deployed with the 173Airborne Brigade. By April 1970, the unit had seen substantialcombat
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