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Title: Platoon on a mission
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1965
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The platoon's mission was to support Echo Company, trying to find way to get a large body of troops over Dong Den mountain. Platoon Sgt. James Summers (center) points out the route on a map to Lance Cpl. William Calder (left) and Navy Medical Corpsman Richard Ernisse, of Rochester, N.Y., as they pause in the elephant grass along the trail. August 5, 1965.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049338
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2181
CARL0000053254
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17587
Subject: United States.--Army
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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