Viet Cong tunnel cover

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02706
Title: Viet Cong tunnel cover
Description: Original caption: "Americal Division Hole Hunters - A well camouflaged VC hole cover is located in the 2nd Battalion 35 Infantry, Americal Division area. Local VC forces have used the holes to hide following sniper attacks to avoid discovery or contact. More than 1000 holes have been located by 3rd Bde, 4th Inf Div, in Quang Ngai. Detection and clearance is a slow, careful process requiring an interpreter to ask the enemy to surrender, grenades to clear the enemy and 'tunnel rats' who inspect the holes for weapons or VC." Several stumps of trees on the forest floor.
Date: 1967, approximate
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Army; Soldiers; Tunnels
Location: South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6297
Size: 20 x 25 cm
Container: B146, F3
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