Rations airdrop

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02681
Title: Rations airdrop
Description: Original caption: "Saigon - Here Comes the Goodies - An Army infantryman watches happily as more rations cascade into the drop zone at the A Loui airstrip in the A Shau Valley. The 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) needed food after several days of fighting in the region, so C-130 Hercules transports were called upon from nearby Air Force installations to airdrop the supplies." An American soldier stands in a field near a pile of supplies. In the distance there are parachutes falling from the sky. It appears that the parachutes are dropping supplies, not personnel.
Date: 1967, approximate
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Soldiers; United States. Army; Airdrop; Military supplies; Hercules (Turboprop transports); Airplanes; Operational rations (Military supplies); United States. Air Force
Location: Saigon, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.8231; 106.6297
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. Air Force
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
Copyright Information: These images are for educational use only. To inquire about usage or publication, please contact Archives & Special Collections.
Publisher: Archives & Special Collections
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