Episode 1 of the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick series ‘The Vietnam War’ featured several images (including the one above) by Howard Sochurek from the 1954 photo essay Hanoi’s Red Masters Take Over.” The original article that ran with the image begins: “Out of Indochina’s jungle,where for the final eight years they own been fighting an elusive and desperate war, on to the wide boulevards of Hanoi came 30000 Communist soldiers final week. They came to clinch the greatest Communist victory in Asia since the Reds conquered China…” Learn more about this on LIFE.com and check out our instagram story for more images from this essay. (Howard Sochurek—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #Vietnam #VietnamWarPBS @vietnamwarpbs
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