A look back at more than two dozen Vietnam War-related LIFE magazine covers, from the early 1960s through the early 1970s. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV. Subscribe Subscribe.

All the more remarkable that in January of 1963, LIFE magazine published the powerful cover article, “We Wade Deeper Into Jungle War,” and illustrated it with not one or two photos but with a ...

Life magazine has chronicled the news in pictures for nearly 90 years. To mark the milestone anniversary, the Daily News looks back at its iconic covers, dating back to its debut on Nov. 23, 1936.

In June, 1969, a large black and white photograph of Army Spec. William C. Gearing Jr. of Greece, N.Y., filled the cover of Life Magazine. Gearing, 20, had been drafted in May 1968, a year out of ...

On June 27, 1969, Life magazine published an issue that resonated across the nation. On the cover was the face of a young man from upstate New York. His name was William Gearing. The headline over ...

Fifty years ago Friday, an El Paso marine was part of documented history during the Vietnam War. Life magazine correspondent David Douglas Duncan was covering the war when he captured a photograph ...

A few years ago, Clay Mountcastle’s father, Jack, a Vietnam veteran, showed him a copy of a 1966 issue of Life Magazine — a once wildly popular weekly publication — ...