Ambush
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Ambush

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Ambush

August 25, 1968
Gelatin silver print
Image: 16.1 x 21.3 cm (6 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
Paper: 17.8 x 23 cm (7 x 9 1/16 in.)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0012
Inscriptions verso (ink on attached sheet): Vietnam War
(typed on attached sheet): D9435(NY17) / ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO FROM NEW YORK / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / AMBUSH / A SOLDIER OF C COMPANY, FIRST BATTALION / MECHANIZED OF THE 25TH INFANTRY DIVISION / DASHES FOR A NEW POSITION AS A MEDIC TREATS / A WOUNDED MAN. THE UNIT WAS HIT BY ELEMENTS / OF A NORTH VIETNAMESE REGIMENT AS IT OPENED / A KEY ROUTE SOME 45 MILES NORTHWEST OF / SAIGON. THE TERRAIN IN THE AREA IS THICK / EORESTS AND AMANDONED RUBBER PLANTATIONS-- / PERFECT AMBUSH COUNTRY. / BC/KK 1030P 8/25/68 STF 40 / NYT NYSW ABC CBS NATOBS NRN SIA STAATS LON / PAR SS ROM GER TOK BAIRES TMC NSWK WW
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