NARA 111-CCV-633-CC35504 1st Cavalry Division soldiers guarding landing zone Operation Henry Clay 1966
Soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division stand guard over a Landing Zone (LZ) waiting for the second wave of assault helicopters to land. Moments before, the Soldiers marked the LZ using smoke grenades as markers to guide the incoming pilots. The 1st Cavalry Division was conducting search and destroy missions during Operation “Henry Clay” inside the Republic of Vietnam and near the Cambodian border.
- Date
- 1966-07-06
- Photographer / author
- Photographer SP4 Robert C. Lafoon, Department of the Army Special Photo (Office)
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,600 × 2,395 pixels
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