NARA 111-CCV-409-CC33199 101st Airborne soldier searching for Vietcong Operation Van Buren 1966

SP4 McClanton Miller form Company A, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry, 101st Airborne Brigade looks for Viet Cong Soldiers while standing in tall, thick vegetation. SP4 Miller along with fellow Soldiers from the company were conducting search and destroy missions in Operation “Van Buren”. The 327th was denying the vital rice harvest around Tuy Hoa from falling into VC hands.

Date

1966-01-23

Photographer / author

Signal Corps photographer

Archive

U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

3,600 × 2,408 pixels

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