The Snapshots in Time Collection

Civilian and Military Traffic at a Saigon Street Intersection, South Vietnam, 1968 (Tet Offensive Period)

Civilian and Military Traffic at a Saigon Street Intersection, South Vietnam, 1968 (Tet Offensive Period)

A Saigon street intersection captured in 1968, the year of the Tet Offensive. Civilian taxis, cargo trucks, a passing military jeep, and a street vendor carrying baskets on a shoulder pole share the roadway beneath Vietnamese-language traffic signs. The photograph captures the everyday rhythms of urban life in wartime South Vietnam, where military and civilian worlds intersected daily on the streets of the capital. Project: 218418