Captured enemy sighting device

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Digital Object Identifier: 363-02655
Title: Captured enemy sighting device
Description: Original caption: "Lieutenant (junior grade) James F. Morgan, Jr., USN, of Havertown, Pa., examines an enemy sighting device recovered from sampan in which at least 15 enemy soldiers were killed by U.S. Navy Forces early today. The action occurred as the sampan attempted to cross the Mo Nhat River in Phuoc Tuy Province, 27 miles southeast of Saigon. Carrying case for the Russian-made weapon sight is at lower left." An American sailor holds a piece of sighting equipment. More equipment sits in front of him, including some metal equipment cases. Another American sailor is in the background in the right of the frame.
Date: 1968, Oct. 19
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Enemy property; United States. Navy; Firearms--Sights; Sailors; Soviet Union
Location: 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. Navy
Collector: Keever, Beverly Deepe
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Publisher: Archives & Special Collections
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