[Video] Hoang Van Sac - A living witness of a time of bombs and bullets

Coming to Dong Loc T-junction, many people lingered in front of the photo, taken by photographer Hoang Van Sac, former photojournalist of Vietnam News Agency, right at the time when the American enemy was bombing most fiercely. When they learned that this photo was taken less than a month before the girls died, many people could not hold back their emotions.

In 1959, Mr. Hoang Van Sac was sent to attend the first journalism course opened by the Central Press Department. In 1965, Van Sac was assigned to the Vietnam News Agency, in charge of the transportation board. His task at that time was to reflect the heroic battles of the youth volunteer units, road construction units, and the battlefields protecting the vital routes.

In late 1968, Van Sac went deep into the Truong Son road and the Ho Chi Minh trail to record the most fierce images of the war.

His photo of the road to the front line was taken at the most fiercely bombed point, Highway 32 Vinh Linh. This is a narrow bend, so the American bombs would hit it no matter what.

He still could not forget the image of the 20-year-old girls, innocent, pure, and carefree when facing the enemy's bombs. In the slanting afternoon, 12 girls nimbly used hoes and shovels to level the bomb mortar. The shadows of the 12 girls reflected in the bomb craters that Van Sac captured at that moment have now become valuable documents.

The war has long gone, but the memories of his time as a photographer in the most bomb-ravaged land and of those who sacrificed their youth and blood to preserve the independence and freedom of the Fatherland are still deeply imprinted in his memory.

LE CHI

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