Viet Cong execution
Eddie Adams
This photograph, taken in Saigon by Eddie Adams in February 1968 during the Tet offensive, embodies the horror and brutality of the Vietnam War. It shows a member of the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong, being shot in the temple by South Vietnam police chief Lt Colonel Nguyen Ngoc Loan.
The man was later identified as Nguyen Van Lam, known in the Viet Cong as Bay Lap.
The Tet offensive, so called because it began on the day of the lunar new year (Tet Nguyen Dan), was a series of operations coordinated by North Vietnamese guerillas against the South Vietnamese army and the US military.
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