The 1960s encapsulated a generation at war and was a springboard for protests as well as racial political and social change. It was a time when young men, barely old enough to hold a gun, were sent half a world a way to fight in Vietnam.
Often, the human side of the war was untold, with only numbers of those killed in battle displaying the horrors of the war.
But in a breathtaking photo essay by famed LIFE photojournalist Larry Burrows, human emotion and the plight of a troop of American soldiers is captured in stunning detail at the apex of the conflict, putting a searingly sympathetic touch to the lives of soldiers serving their country.
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