Carrying Their Supplies On Their Backs

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Carrying Their Supplies On Their Backs

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Carrying Their Supplies On Their Backs: Carrying packs, cooking pots and other equipment, South Vietnamese soldiers wade through waist-deep water as they search for enemy troops in the U Minh Forest in South Vietnamese’s Mekong Delta on November 14th, 1969. The men were some of 4,000 taking part in the operation

Artist Mark Godfrey (American)

Publisher Associated Press (AP) (American, founded 1846)

Date1969

ClassificationsPhotograph

MediumGelatin silver print

Dimensions8 1/2 x 6 3/8 in.

Credit LineGift of Dr. James and Debra Pearl

Object number2021.0570

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