173rd Airborne Brigade arriving by helicopter during Operation 'Francis Marion'

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02561
Title: 173rd Airborne Brigade arriving by helicopter during Operation 'Francis Marion'
Description: Original caption: "Heliborne Airborne - Paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, arriving by helicopter instead of by parachute, make an assault landing 28 miles southwest of Plieku during Operation 'Francis Marion'. A radioman (right) keeps on top of the situation as troopers secure the landing zone while troops carrying Huey "Slicks" move out to pick-up reinforcements." American soldiers crouch in a field, looking away from the camera as helicopters fly overhead.
Date: 1967, July 27
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Army; Operation Francis Marion, 1967; Military helicopters; Soldiers; United States. Army--Radiomen
Location: Pleiku, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 13.9718; 108.0151
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