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These captioned, black & white photographs include scenes from combat and evacuation operations; and personalities such as President Ngo Dinh Diem, US presidents Johnson and Nixon, and personalities such as Walter Cronkite, Martha Raye, and Bob Hope. There are views of interactions between Marine Corps personnel and Vietnamese civilians. Also in this series are photos of Operation Homecoming, the return of American Marine prisoners of war to the United States. Continue…
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Annotation added: 3rd Marine Division. Photographer: Staff Sergeant H. C. Batchelor. THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES--Captain P. P. Collins, Colorado of Recon Company, 3rd Marines, 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB), has Private First Class K. H. White pour water over his head to cool off after the Village of Dong Son had been secured. Viet Cong was suspected of hiding there.
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Annotation added: 3rd Marine Division. Photographer: Mike Padilla. COOL WATER-- Private First Class Robert Gray (Abilene, Texas) usees a leaf to fill his canteen up from a mountain stream while on a search and clear operation south of Camp Carroll.
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Annotation added: 1st Marine Division. Private first class Danny M. Schbring, 2418324, age 19, Springfield, Massachusetts- H&S Company, filling water cans.
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Annotation added: 1st Marine Division. Photographer: Sergeant O. L. Snodgrass. Corpoal G. A. Welton fills his canteens from a bomb crater on Hill 588.
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Annotation added: Third Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) Photographer: Lance Corporal Thurston Bachtel. During rain, soaked marines of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, huddle under stretched pancho liner for protection. They were building bunkers for fire base LZ Cates when shower caught them.
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Annotation added: Third Marine Division. Photographer: Thurston Bachtel. First Lieutenant James Luker, Junior. (Cinncinatti, Ohio), a fire support coordinator for 2/4, stops at a stream near LZ Cates to fill his canteen with the aid of an empty can on Operation Scotland near Khe Sanh.
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Annotation added: 3rd Marine Division. Marine getting drink on a short break.
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Annotation added: 3rd Marine Division. Photographer: Lance Corporal L. P. Brown. Corporal Gregg J. Wibur (Baltimore, Maryland) gets a helping hand from "baby-son" as he fills his canteen on a recent 1st American Tank Battalion (1st AMTKBN) search and destroy mission.
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Annotation added: 1st Marine Division. Photographer: Lance Corporal D. L. Fischer. WATER--Two Marines from "D" Company, First Battalion, Fifth Marines carry their squads canteens to the ole water hole, during a very hot day on Operation Cochise. The action took place about twenty five miles south-west of Da Nang near Hill 29.
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Annotation added: II metal water cans, which are difficult to handle and transport.
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Annotation added: Fleet Marine Force (FMF) Pacific (PAC) Photographer: Lance Corporal Nick Myers. COOL HEAD? --What might appear to be ice being carried by Marine Lance Copral Jerry Pattison (1735 D. Street Northeast, Salem, Oregon) are in reality one of the lastest combat supply items from Marine Force Logistic Command. The five gallon plastic water containers are being used by First Marine Division infantrymen taking part in OPERATION OKLAHOMA HILLS-southwest of Da nang. The containers replace the World war
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Annotation added: Third Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) Photographer: Corporal M. R. Wolfe WATER SUPPLY-- A crew member of a CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter fits empty five gallon water cans into the 'copter before heading for shipping of the Special Landing Force for resupply.
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Source Information
Photographs of Marine Corps Activities in Vietnam, 1962-1975 (B/W). Original data from: The National Archives
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