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Date: 1966
Title: Long Khanh Province, Republic of
Vietnam...SP4 R. Richter, 4th Battalion, 503rd Infantry, 173rd Airborne
Brigade, lifts his battle weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why? Sergeant
Danial E. Spencer stares down at their fallen comrade. The day's battle ended,
they silently await the helicopter which will evacute their comrade from the
jungle covered hills.
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Date: June 1970
Title: Saigon, south Vietnam...Staff Sergeant
Ermalinda Salazar, a woman Marine, has been nominated for the 1970 Unsung
Heroine Award presented annually by the Ladies Auxillary to the veterans of
foreign wars. Staff Sergeant Salazar, determined to help the children of the
St. Vincent de Paul Orphanage in Vietnam in her off-duty hours, holds two of
the youngsters.
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Date: May 13, 1968
Title: Private First Class David Sletten,
Medic, Company B, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, paddles
a three-man assault boat down the canal toward a breaking point during
Operation Tong Thang I.
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Date: January 18, 1968
Title: OPERATION "YELLOWSTONE" VIETNAM:
Following a hard day, a few members of company "A", 3rd Battalion, 22nd
Infantry (Mechanized), 25th Infantry Division, gather around a guitar player
and sing a few songs.
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Date: 1969
Title: Soldiers carry a wounded comrade through
a swampy area.
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Date: December 10, 1965
Title: Men of H Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th
Marines, move along rice paddy dikes in pursuit of the Viet Cong.
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Date: February 12, 1973
Title: Camp Pendleton, California. Operation
Homecoming--Wives of Marines stationed at Marine Corps Base, Camp Pendleton,
wait at the Naval Air Station, Miramar for repatriated Marine prisoners of war
to arrive.
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Date: July 9, 1971
Title: 1st Lt. Elaine H. Niggemann changes a
surgical dressing for Mr. James J. Torgelson at the 24th Evacuation Hospital.
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