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Marines of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion 1st Marines, fire their M-60 at the enemy across a stream, located 17 miles Southw...
04/02/2026

Marines of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion 1st Marines, fire their M-60 at the enemy across a stream, located 17 miles Southwest of Da Nang - May 5, 1970.

Although US forces were already beginning to pull out of Vietnam under President Richard Nixon’s “Vietnamisation” policy, 2/1 still had another year in country ahead of it. It would finally return to Camp Pendleton in June of 1971, and be reassigned to the 1st Marine Division, Fleet Marine Force.

04/02/2026

FAKE weapons! For educational purposes only! Dak To was a series of major engagements of the Vietnam War that took place between November 3 and 23 1967, in Kon Tum Province, in the Central Highlands of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam).

Two Marines give the Yuletide season a boost by putting up Christmas decorations at D**g Ha Combat Base - December 1968....
04/02/2026

Two Marines give the Yuletide season a boost by putting up Christmas decorations at D**g Ha Combat Base - December 1968.

Photo by Corporal J. C. McCullough (USMC)

04/02/2026

The A-6 was in service with the United States Navy and Marine Corps between 1963 and 1997, during which time multiple variants were prototyped and produced. The A-6 was heavily used during the Vietnam War. The aircraft's long range and heavy payload (18,000 pounds or 8,200 kilograms) coupled with its ability to fly in all weather made it invaluable during the war. During the war, U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps lost a total of 84 A-6 aircraft of various series. #🇺🇸

Pvt. Randall E. Josey, a Marine sniper attached to Co. H, 2nd Bn., 5th Marines, has a bead on a Viet Cong at over 1,000 ...
04/02/2026

Pvt. Randall E. Josey, a Marine sniper attached to Co. H, 2nd Bn., 5th Marines, has a bead on a Viet Cong at over 1,000 meters. Using a 3 x 9 power scope, a Re*****on 700 rifle has accuracy up to 1,100 meters and has been used effectively up to 2,000 meters or more - June 19, 1967.

USMC Photo & caption.

This photo was probably taken as part of Operation Arizona (June 14-22, 1967), an 8-day Marine Corps search & destroy operation in the Dai Loc and Duc Duc districts south of Da Nang. The operation was to counter Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) forces in the area. Featuring the use of snipers for reconnaissance it resulted in heavy sniper engagement and intense close-quarters fighting in villages and rice paddies.

04/01/2026

This historic Vietnam War footage shows formation bombing runs by F-100Ds.

During the Vietnam War, the United States and its allies dropped an estimated 7–7.5 million tons of bombs across Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. This total exceeds the entire combined bomb tonnage used in both the European and Pacific theaters during World War II, making Vietnam the most heavily bombed conflict in human history.

Scholars emphasize that the unprecedented scale of aerial bombardment reshaped landscapes, populations, and long-term social and economic conditions across Southeast Asia.

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Sources:
- Miguel, Edward, and Gérard Roland. “The Long-Run Impact of Bombing Vietnam.” Journal of Development Economics 96, no. 1 (2011): 1–15.
- United States Air Force. The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia, 1961–1973. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History, Department of the Air Force, various volumes.
- Tilford, Earl H., Jr. Setup: What the Air Force Did in Vietnam and Why. Maxwell Air Force Base, AL: Air University Press, 1991.

Video courtesy of the U.S. National Archives. Public domain (per U.S. National Archives catalog).

An aerial observer connects his K-20 aerial camera to the power source on an OE-1 Bird Dog belonging to HMM-261 “Raging ...
04/01/2026

An aerial observer connects his K-20 aerial camera to the power source on an OE-1 Bird Dog belonging to HMM-261 “Raging Bulls” in preparation for a photoreconnaissance mission as part of Operation Shufly - Summer 1963.

Photo by Cpl. David H. Hugel. USMC

On 8 June 1963, HMM-261 began serving as the Shufly squadron and achieved 5,288 combat flying hours and 11,406 sorties during its deployment up until October 2, 1963 when they were replaced by HMM-361 “Flying Tigers”.

Operation Shufly was the United States Marine Corps operation to improve the mobility of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) forces in the early phases of the war from 1962 to 1965. Beginning on 15 April 1962, Marine helicopter squadrons, associated maintenance units and air traffic control detachments deployed to Sóc Trăng Airfield in the Mekong Delta and later to Da Nang Air Base rotating every four months in order to provide assault support and medevac assistance during combat operations. By early 1965 half of the Marine Corps’ medium helicopter squadrons had rotated through a “Shufly” deployment. The operation ended on 8 March 1965, when the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade came ashore as the vanguard of the United States’ commitment of large numbers of regular combat units into South Vietnam.

04/01/2026

For educational purposes only! #🇺🇸

Marines search for enemy weapons, equipment and supplies during Operation Starlite - August 17 -24, 1965.Operation Starl...
04/01/2026

Marines search for enemy weapons, equipment and supplies during Operation Starlite - August 17 -24, 1965.

Operation Starlite (also known in Vietnam as the Battle of Van Tuong) was the first major offensive action conducted by a purely U.S. military unit during the Vietnam War. III Marine Amphibious Force (III MAF) commander Lieutenant General Lewis W. Walt devised a plan to launch a pre-emptive strike against the Viet Cong (VC) 1st Regiment to nullify their threat to the vital Chu Lai Air Base.

The Marine on the right carries his M14 with bayonet fixed and a bipod. This suggests his weapon might be set up with a selector switch still allowing fully automatic fire. It does not carry the M14E2 (later redesignated the M14A1) stock which had a foregrip, rear pistol grip and a recoil-reducing stabilizer/muzzle brake.

04/01/2026

VC going to a ride. Most took the ride to Saigon…many never made it there.

Marines of Company C, 1st Battalion 9th Marines, move through swampland searching for Viet Cong near the ‘Street Without...
04/01/2026

Marines of Company C, 1st Battalion 9th Marines, move through swampland searching for Viet Cong near the ‘Street Without Joy’ during Operation Chinook II. The 3d Marine Division unit was operating in an area about 12 miles northwest of Hue - February 27, 1967.

USMC photo by Sergeant T. F. Burch.

This is another picture of an M14 with the M2 bipod but not the E2 stock which suggests it might be a standard M14 set up for full auto as a squad automatic weapon.

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