VietNamNet Bridge - Time Magazine - the famous weekly news magazine in the US – has used the portrait of General Vo Nguyen Giap on its cover three times and published articles about different periods in the general’s career.

Portrait of General Vo Nguyen Giap appeared for the first time on the cover of the Time Magazine on June 17th 1966, a year after the US sent a large number of soldiers to South Vietnam.

The article for the cover was about the life and career of General Giap, emphasizing Vietnam’s victory over 12,000 French troops in Dien Bien Phu in 1954. This victory made the Vietnamese General famous worldwide.

The portrait of General Vo Nguyen Giap on the cover of Time Magazine on February 9th 1968.

The portrait of General Giap appeared the second time on the cover of the American magazine on February 9th 1968, 10 days after the general offensive and Tet uprising of 1968 was launched.

The title of the cover image is "Days of death in Vietnam," accompanied with an article about the fear of the Americans in South Vietnam, when more than 36,000 liberation soldiers simultaneously attacked hundreds of places, stretching from Quang Tri in the central Vietnam to Phu Quoc island off the coast of the Mekong Delta.

The portrait of General Giap on Time Magazine on May 15th 1972

The third time General Giap's portrait appeared on the cover of Time Magazine was on May 15th 1972, with an article of the failure of the Saigon regime army in the central province of Quang Tri in the opening campaign of the major offensive in spring 1972 of the Liberation Army.

Thanh Van