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Associated Press A Swamp Movement Toward the Enemy

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09795.05 Author/Creator: Associated Press Place Written: Vietnam Type: Photograph Date: 27 January 1969 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 25.3 x 20.5 cm. Order a Copy

One wirephoto entitled, "A Swamp Movement Toward the Enemy," taken by the Associated Press dated January 27, 1969. Depicts South Vietnamese Special Forces troops moving through a swamp. Wire transfer information states that the troops and advisors were walking through a swamp in the Mekong Delta on a mission to destroy enemy bunkers.

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