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Sea Swallow Training
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An explosive is detonated by an instructor between rows of crawling Vietnamese Sea Swallow trainees at Binh Hung. The training was intended to teach them that they could survive shelling.
October 1961
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1965
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WHi 116947
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New Sea Swallow Graduates
October 1961
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 training by starting out on its first military mi...
South Vietnamese Patrol
1961
South Vietnamese soldiers from the Sea Swallow Army wading along a canal on patrol near the village of Binh Hung. Grass buildings are in the background near trees.
Vietnamese Funeral
May 1962
Funeral at Binh Hung, Vietnam for several members of the Vietnamese Sea Swallows battallion who were killed in combat against Viet Cong forces on May 29. Under a roofed building with columns are el...
Inspecting Soldier's Wound
1961
South Vietnamese medic inspects a wound on the shoulder of a Sea Swallow soldier at the village on Van Dinh.
Wounded South Vietnamese Soldier
1961
Soldier assisting a wounded South Vietnamese soldier.
Payday for Army
1961
South Vietnamese soldiers gathered around a table where a woman, the "paymistress," sits with payroll sheets. The men are collecting their pay in the village of Binh Hung.
