Servicemembers gather around a guitar player and sing a few songs after a hard day during Operation Yellowstone in northeast Tây Ninh Province, Vietnam, on January 18, 1968.
Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer
Series: Color Photographs of Signal Corps Activity
Image description: Three men in dark green uniforms gather around a fourth man, who is playing a weathered acoustic guitar. They are outdoors in evening light. The man playing the guitar is wearing the insignia of the 25th Infantry (a lightning bolt in a taro-leaf-shaped outline), and a cloth-covered helmet. The helmet has been adorned with “LOVE NOT WAR”, “DRAFT BEER NOT TEENS” [or possibly TEENAGERS], “OKLAHOMA KID” and a drawing of Snoopy surfing.
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U.S. Marine Corps machinegunner on Hill 881 in Vietnam, on April 2, 1968.
Record Group 127: Records of the U.S. Marine Corps
Series: Black and White Photographs of Marine Corps Activities in Vietnam
File Unit: Divider/Subject - 88 - Combat - 1968
Image description: Two men behind a pile of sandbags. One is using a machine gun. He is wearing a flak jacket and a helmet. The helmet has writing on it. As far as we can tell, it says “WE ARE NO CHILDREN OF AMERICA WE ARE HEADHUNTERS,” although some letters aren’t visible due to the curve of the helmet.
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127 GVB - 88
35mm Negative
3M-4-534-68
IIIMAF
Vietnam
2Apr68 Photog: Harlan
Machinegunner on Hill 881 returning fire at sniper after receiving heavy fire on resupply Choppers.
DEFENSE DEPT. PHOTO (MARINE CORPS)
fhm A191080
[handwritten]
CHECK WRITING ON HELMET. Top Mosch [?]
[arrow pointing from below stamp to above handwriting]
[stamped]
NOT CLEARED FOR OPEN PUBLICATION OASD (DA)(SR)
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What do you think would be underneath MDK's helmet....or can he even take it off at all.... ive been thinking about that
cant
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