John Crews with a captured machinegun

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02647
Title: John Crews with a captured machinegun
Description: Original caption: "Tuy Hoa, Vietnam - Specialist Four John Crews, of 1st Brigade , 101st Airborne Division paratrooper sits behind an enemy 12.7mm heavy machinegun captured by the 2nd Battalion, 502nd (Airborne) Infantry during an engagement with the 95th North Vietnamese Army Regiment near Tuy Hoa on Operation Geronimo I. Seventy-three enemy were killed and 44 captured in the battle while friendly causalities were light." An American soldier aims a machine gun mounted on wheels. He sits on a tarp in the grass.
Date: 1965-1968, approximately
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Parachute troops; United States. Army; Soldiers; Operation Geronimo I, 1966; Enemy property; Machine guns
Location: Tuy Hòa, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 13.1057; 109.2950
Size: 20 x 25 cm
Container: B146, F4
Format: black-and-white prints (photographs)
Collection Number: MS 363
Collection Title: Beverly Deepe Keever, Journalism Papers
Creator: United States. Army
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher: Archives & Special Collections
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