Many women enlisted into the Vietnamese People's Army and took up roles in frontline nursing and combat while those who joined the Viet Cong worked behind enemy lines in South Vietnam, on sabotage missions and underground in tunnels.
Lee Karen Stow's pictures capture both the military heroines and bereaved mothers created during the Vietnam War.
"We were not afraid." "We would never give up."
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