Photos US Forces

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1st Cavalry Division troops with VC suspects. November 15, 1967

 

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An EKA-3B Skywarrior of VAQ-130, A-4F Skyhawk of VA-22 and F-8J Crusader of VF-53 in formation over the Gulf of Tonkin, October, 1969

 

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A UH-1D helicopter brings in a wounded member of the Hqs Recon Platoon, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division during Operation Attleboro II, a search and destroy mission in the Tay Ninh Province, approximately 65 miles northwest of Saigon. November 18, 1966

 

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HA, now that's cool !!

 

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Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Division (red, white and blue unit patches) based at Bearcat (Camp Martin Cox) are trucked to a waiting Caribou aircraft for the flight to their new units. 1967

 

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Troops of the 77th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division hunker down in a partially completed bunker to escape the mayhem of 3,600 of our own 105mm Howitzer rounds light off at knee level in all directions. 1967

 

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Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter makes a quick troop drop at a Fire Support Base near the Cambodian border without touching down. 1967

 

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2nd Battalion, 77th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division assembles at the Dau Tieng airfield in preparation for a major combat operation near the Cambodian border. 1967

 

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Troops of the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment (mechanized) get squared away to move on a Search and Destroy mission into “The Rubber” (the Michelin Plantation), 1967

 

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M60 Machine Gunners

 

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18 May 1968, Captain Charles Robb leads a group of Marines on a patrol south of Da Nang.

Captain Charles Robb (seated beside driver) is shown at Battalion H.Q. Hill 37, H.Q. of 3/7 Marines a few days after announcement that his wife Lynda is expecting a baby.

 

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On February 23, 1969, Iowa class battleship USS New Jersey fired 1500 rounds of 5-inch ammunition in a night of shore bombardment—shown here is the aftermath. During her Vietnam deployment, the battleship fired more rounds than she did in WWII and Korea combined.

 

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