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THE GRIM realities of the Vietnam War have been revealed after a series of brutal conflict photographs were expertly colourised.

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THE GRIM realities of the Vietnam War have been revealed after a series of brutal conflict photographs were expertly colourised.

The incredible images show US riflemen charge toward Viet Cong positions while holding machine guns, wounded US Paratroopers being helped to a medical evacuation helicopter and US Army helicopters providing support for ground troops.

Other striking shots show women and children taking cover in a muddy canal from intense Viet Cong fire, US Army helicopters pouring machine-gun fire into a tree line and a US machine gunner peering from the brush of an overgrown rubber plantation during a half-hour fire fight.

The original black and white pictures were painstakingly colourised over a period of 10 hours by electrician Royston Leonard (55) from Cardiff, Wales.

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