NARA 111-CCV-349-CC43096 Smoke grenade identifies landing zone for 101st Airborne UH-1D carrying brigade commander Operation Cook 1967

Operation “Cook”, was a search and destroy mission conducted in the mountains of Quang Ngai Province, RVN about 320 miles NE of Saigon. A “Purple Haze” smoke grenade is used to identify the landing zone for a UH-1D helicopter carrying the brigade commander of the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. The brigade commander was making a visit to receive a briefing from the commander of the 2nd Battalion, 502nd Infantry.

Date

1967-09-06

Photographer / author

Photographer SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, Department of the Army Special Photo Office (DASPO)

Archive

U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

3,600 × 2,406 pixels

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