Tribal Alliance

An American officer serving with the South Vietnam forces poses with group of Montagnards in front of one of their provisionary huts in a military camp in central Vietnam on November 17, 1962. The Montagnards are dark-skinned tribesmen numbering about 700,000, live in the highlands of central Vietnam. The U.S. government was trying to win their alliance in its war with the Viet Cong.