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K-31497 Wounded Marine

Wounded Marine
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Title: Wounded Marine
Caption: A wounded Marine is rushed through a flooded rice paddy to a waiting helicopter for evacuation to a field hospital, 18 March 1966. The action was 20 miles south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone between Hue and Quang Tri as the First Battalion, 4th Marines engaged the Vietcong in a search-and-destroy mission.
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Catalog #: K-31497
Copyright Owner: National Archives
Original Creator: Photographer, Chief Journalist Jim F. Falk
Original Date: Fri, Mar 18, 1966
After this Year: 1964
Before this Year: 1975
Original Medium: BW Photo
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