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Sea Swallow Militia on Canal

Date: 11 1961
Description: Sea Swallows, an anti-communist Vietnamese militia, begin an operation by boats on a canal in the vicinity of Van Dinh, Vietnam. Militia members hold guns ...
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Vietnamese Assault on Village

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese soldiers exiting from U.S. Army helicopter and running across a field with guns drawn to assault a village suspected of harboring Viet Cong in t...
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Capture of Suspected Viet Cong

Date: 05 1962
Description: Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Army Ranger advisor ford a rice paddy with a captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietna...
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Vietnamese Soldier in Helicopter

Date: 1962
Description: Vietnamese soldier in a helicopter, holding a rifle and looking out the open door at the countryside of Vietnam.
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VN Ahn Edek Operation Quiet Fire

Date: 08 01 1961
Description: South Vietnamese soldiers pause during a speed march through a rice field.
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Chinese National Marines Training

Date: 1959
Description: Chinese National marine crawls on his stomach beneath barbed wire in an infiltration training course in Formosa. Another man is on the right. The course in...
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Helicopter Reconnaissance Squad

Date: 1962
Description: Marine crew chief Nelson West and several South Vietnamese soldiers patrol an area near Vinh Quoi from a helicopter.
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Prisoner Precedes His Captors

Date: 1962
Description: A man caught with Communist propaganda is taken, with his arms bound, to a waiting helicopter. The soldiers who captured him walk behind with weapons raise...
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New Sea Swallow Graduates

Date: 10 1961
Description: View from water of a newly formed company of Vietnamese Sea Swallows riding in a boat near Binh Hung as they joyously celebrate its graduation from trainin...
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Vietnamese Soldier with Spoils of Victory

Date: 04 1961
Description: Soldiers from the 5th Division of the Vietnamese Army posing with a Russian flag, a Viet Cong flag, and rifles, seized after a victorious battle near the t...

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