Marines of the Seventh Fleet run to helicopters

derivative filename/jpeg: 363-02719.jpg
Digital Object Identifier: 363-02719
Title: Marines of the Seventh Fleet run to helicopters
Description: Original caption: "Marines of the Seventh Fleet special landing force race to their helicopters for a vertical assault on the beach in Thua Thien Province. The mission is a search and destroy sweep of the coastal area Northwest of the City of Hue. The landing force is embarked aboard the amphibious assault carrier USS Princeton the operation is being conducted twenty-one miles southeast of the DMZ." Two helicopters taking off. There are five American soldiers running in the foreground.
Date: 1967, approximate
Subject: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Marines; United States. Marine Corps; Princeton (Frigate); Military helicopters
Location: Thừa Thiên Huế Province, South Vietnam
Coordinates: 16.4674; 107.5905
Size: 15 x 22 cm
Container: B146, F3
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