Title
Historical Vietnam - North Vietnam 1973
Caption
A red flag blows at a construction site around a bomb crater at a railway line along Street Number 1, where young Vietnamese women of a so-called "brigade" work on reconstruction, photographed in March 1973 near Hanoi in North Vietnam.
Street Number 1, of 1,500 kilometres length and as connection line to South Vietnam, had been built by the French and was a strategic target in Vietnam War.
The United States of America flew about 2,000 air attacks on cities and targets in North Vietnam during the "Christmas bombings" in 1972.
The peace agreement was signed on the 27th of January in 1973 in Paris.
Photo: Werner Schulze
Date
Mar 01, 1973
Credit line
Photo12/dpa-pa
Reference
DPA11A01_060
License type
Rights managed
Available size
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