Vanguard Arrives
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Vanguard Arrives

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Photograph

Associated Press

Maker
American

Vanguard Arrives

July 12, 1965
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 11/16 × 10 13/16 in. (19.5 × 27.5 cm)
Paper: 8 × 11 in. (20.3 × 27.9 cm)
Gift of Vincent S. Jones
1976.0344.0040
Inscriptions recto (in image): (ADVANCE FOR SUNDAY, JUNE 27 USE WITH PETER ARNETT'S PENTAGON PAPERS STORY) [underlined] / (NY32-June 25)VANGUARD ARRIVES-American soldiers of the First Infantry Division land at Cam Ranh / Bay in South Vietnam July 12, 1965. They were a portion of the vanguard of 3,900 men who / comprised the first large force of combat infantrymen who landed 180 miles north of Saigon. / The Pentagon Papers revealed comparatively little about the series of decisions that put U.S. / combat troops into Vietnam. (AP Wirephoto) (hmb62215fls) 1971
verso (ink): Vietnam War
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