VietNamNet Bridge – The Youth Union has organized a photo exhibition at the National Convention Center displaying 600 photos and items featuring the life of Vietnamese youth during the wartime.

During the wartime, many Vietnamese young people had to temporarily quit school to join the army to defend the country.

Some pictures displayed at the exhibition:

Hanoian youth walked on the street with slogans
written in blood:

“Youth ask the government to send us to the south to
fight invaders”.

On February 10 1965, at the square in front of the
State Bank of Vietnam in Hanoi,

nearly 30,000 young people joined a
meeting against US troops,

showing their determination to double their
efforts support the south.

Hanoian youth group up on Tran Hung Dao street to prepare to go to the south.

Hanoian youth registered to participate in a patriotic movement.

Guards of the Hanoi Printing Factory.

An art troupe from the central province of Nghe An performed for soldiers.

Volunteers

Southern vanguard youth made a “bridge” by their bodies to move war invalids to a medical station.

In the photo is a war martyr, Doan Thi Lien, who is covered with war invalids from bullets and bombs on her body.

Volunteers studied during an operation.

Volunteers and young solders read “Live like You”, a book about hero Nguyen Van Troi.

Ten girls from Dong Xa Cooperative in the northern province of Thai Binh, who were

outstanding cooperative members, outstanding militias and outstanding soldiers.

The outstanding advancing party of Quang Trung Military Group,

which shot down many US aircrafts.

Hero Nguyen Van Troi at the Saigon Execution Site on October 15 1964.

Vo Thi Thang, an outstanding student and a member of the special task force of Saigon,

smiled to fool the 20-year sentence of the Saigon regime in 1968.

Workers who still worked during their break.

Guerrilas of the Central Highlands placing bamboo spikes.

Northern students made a demonstration with the slogan “Down with US

imperialism and Ngo Dinh Diem lackey gang.”

Labor Hero Pham Thi Vach of Bac Hung Hai irrigation construction work.

Outstanding youth of a mechanical factory in the coastal city of Hai Phong.

Members of a group who attemtped to poison French soldiers in 1908.

Hero Vo Thi Sau who was arrested by French soldiers in 1950 and sentenced

to death for throwing a grenade, killing a French official and injuring 20 French soldiers.

She was executed in Con Dao in 1952, at the age of 17.

A letter by soldier Le Van Bang to President Ho, with happy birthday

wishes and showing his determination to devote his life to the people of Vietnam.

PV