UH-1B gunship, Operation Pershing, May 1967

A UH-1B helicopter, equipped with miniguns and two 2.75 in. rocket pods, of Troop "A", 1st Recon Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) takes on fuel prior to making a recon by fire mission against a suspected enemy position during Operation Pershing, a search and destroy mission conducted approximately 50 km northeast of An Khe in Binh Dinh Province.

Date

1967-05-27

Photographer / author

NARA photo 111-CCV-391-CC40279 by SSG Howard Breedlove

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

1,820 × 1,463 pixels

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