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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 105397 (extended caption)
Vietnam War Riverine Operations
"Plunging into the marsh grass of the swampy Mekong Delta,
Army infantrymen debark from a Navy armored troop carrier (ATC)
to sweep the surrounding countryside for Viet Cong. The ATCs,
supported by monitor gunboats and assault support patrol boats
(ASPBs) move the infantrymen through the otherwise inaccessible
maze of canals and streams that interlace the delta, landing
them in previously selected sites and providing close gunfire
and logistic support. The boats are units of River Assault Flotilla
One, the Navy component of the joint Army-Navy Mobile Riverine
Force (MRF) which operates in the delta." (quoted from the
original caption released with this photograph on 6 June 1968
by Commander River Assault Flotilla One).
Photographed by PH2 Pasco J. Izzo, USN.
More information concerning this photograph is provided below.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
Online Image size: 99KB; 740 x 615
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The following identification on this photograph was provided
by Tim Doty (via Robert Tippins of "Seaweed Ships Histories")
in February 2008:
Photo shows a "Tango Boat" beaching in the Mekong
Delta, disembarking troops of Company A, 3rd/60th Infantry Battalion,
9th Infantry Division.
Man fully visible at right, with M-16 rifle held upright
in his left hand, is Bob Cortea (or Cortie). Behind him, with
rifle in right hand, is Tim Doty. Immediately behind Doty (and
partially covered by the front of Doty's rifle) is Raymond Colfax.
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Image posted 3 February 2008
Extended caption posted 19 March 2008