Operation Starlite 1965
Throughout Operation Starlite, Marine Aircraft Group 16 (MAG-16) choppers dropped into fields to pick up wounded, even where fire fights were raging within 50 yards of their pickup point. Every request from the fiercely engaged Marines on the ground was met NARA 127-N-A184966
- Date
- 1965-08-18
- Photographer / author
- Staff Sgt. R. W. Savatt Jr.
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- image
- Original size
- 3,750 × 2,399 pixels
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