9th Infantry Division machine gunner running from helicopter

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02733
Title: 9th Infantry Division machine gunner running from helicopter
Description: Original caption: "Rach Kien, Vietnam - A 9th Infantry Division machine gunner hits the ground running near Rach Kien - about 35 miles south of Saigon - as heliborne infantrymen of the 'Old Reliable' Division move into combat against Viet Cong forces during Operation "Jackson." While elements of the 9th Infantry Division sweep the Rach Kien area, the Army's multi-division Operation 'Junction City' is clearing War Zone 'C' of hard core VC and North Vietnamese regular forces in Tay Ninh area." An American soldier jumps out of a helicopter into a field. There is another helicopter in the background.
Date: 1967, Mar. 7
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; United States. Army; Soldiers; Machine guns; Military helicopters
Location: Rạch Kiến, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 10.5816; 106.5893
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