Charlie Haughey: A Soldier's Eye

Army photographer Charlie Haughey poses with camera and light meter. Location and date unknown.

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An alert, young M60 machine gun operator in the jungle. Names, date and location unknown.

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U.S. soldiers patrol through a ghostly, defoliated rubber tree plantation.

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Staff Sergeant Edgar D. Bledsoe, of Olive Branch, Ill., cradles a critically ill Vietnamese infant. The child was brought to Fire Support Base Pershing. This image, with this caption, was originally published in Vol. 3 No. 53 of Tropic Lightning News, December 30, 1968.

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An M60 operator pauses for a moment under the heavy load of machine gun ammo. Members of the unit were all required to carry some type of ammo or supplies, including bandoliers of heavy bullets. Name, date and location unknown.

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Vietnamese children. Names, date and location unknown.

Charlie Haughey

Soldiers fire a captured M2 60mm mortar, originally a weapon produced by the United States for use in World War II and the Korean War. The mortar was captured on a patrol in a rice paddy, from Viet Cong forces. Names, date and location unknown.

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An RTO guides a Chinook delivering a sling load of materials and supplies at Fire Support Base Pershing, near Dau Tieng. Name and date unknown.

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A specially adapted armored personnel carrier, known as a flame track, clears ambush positions on the side of a supply route road. Names, date and location unknown.

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A sergeant kneels on wet ground and checks his M16. Name, date and location unknown.

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Vietnamese children in a school. Names, date and location unknown.

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