VietNamNet Bridge – Below are 40 color and black and white photographs selected from hundreds of photos taken in northern Vietnam during the resistance war against the US and the 1979 border war by Germanwar correspondent Thomas Billhardt. Memories about a painful but magnanimous period will hit the heart of many people.




Love




A volunteer lights a cigarette for an older person. Both lost one leg.




Lulling babies to sleep




Part of a body buried in mother earth.




A broken-hearted woman besides her grandchild’s body, who died of warfare munitions.






Ruins after a bombing.











An underground field hospital.




Practice shooting in the park. 




A wounded soldier and his comrades.




An American pilot escorted by a female militia.





War prisoner




An American prisoner cries when reading a letter from home.






War prisoners.








Children hid under a shelter.




The minutes of rest without bombers.




The soldiers besides their air defense systems.








Buffalo girls. 










Doing homework on a buffalo. 



Beautiful picture of normal life.



Innocent eyes of an ethnic baby.




Other eyes.




A little girl carries her younger sister on the back.




A lovely little girl.




An exemplary woman who is good at housework and social work.




A child carries wood with his father.



Two children and their mum on a bicycle.




Female soldiers in a rally.




A large rally was held at the August Revolution Square, Hanoi.




Chinese prisoners in 1979.




A Chinese spy arrested in 1979.




People rest on the way of evacuation in the border war in 1979.





A truck carrying wounded soldiers in the northern border in 1979.




T. Van