During the Vietnam War, on February 24th 1966, the Viet Cong launched a surprise attack on the American 1st Cavalry Division's position near Tan Binh, and the bodies of the Viet Cong soldiers who were killed in the battle were dragged away by American armored personnel carriers, leaving them covered in mud.

　　On February 24th 1966, during the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong of the South Vietnamese Liberation Front launched a surprise attack on the American 1st Cavalry Division's position near Tan Binh. The bodies of the Viet Cong soldiers killed in the battle were dragged away by an American armored personnel carrier, leaving them covered in mud. These were the bodies of the remaining Viet Cong soldiers on the battlefield at Tan Binh, 56km northwest of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. The American soldiers boarded the armored personnel carrier without a care in the world, and carried out their mission while looking down on the bodies with a nonchalant air.As a “death covered in mud”, Koichi Sawada took a photo of a corpse being dragged behind an armored personnel carrier, and it won first place in the news photography category at the 10th World Press Photo Exhibition.

　　After the Battle of Suoi Bon Chan in Tan Binh, a Viet Cong soldier's corpse was dragged behind an American armored vehicle to the burial site. American and Australian forces fought against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army on the nights of February 23 and 24, 1966. The battle broke out in the vicinity of Tan Binh, which is located 30km northwest of Bien Hoa Air Base. It occurred during Operation Rolling Stone, a large-scale American military security operation to protect engineers building a strategic road. On the morning of February 24, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army suffered heavy casualties, with around 500 people killed. The American military suffered 11 casualties, and the Australian military suffered 74 casualties.

　　In 1966, as the Vietnam War intensified, the Allied forces continued to fight the Vietcong in an attempt to secure a foothold in South Vietnam. The Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces were driven back by the Australian and American forces. The bodies of dead Vietcong soldiers were tied to the back of American armored personnel carriers and dragged behind the tanks, perhaps out of spite or to show off their victory. The Vietnam War was the only war in which a third party, not a party to the war, was able to report the facts of the war. President John F. Kennedy made the purpose and intentions of the war known to the world.