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Category:US National Archives series: Black and White Photographs of Marine Corps Activities in Vietnam, 1962 - 1975

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The primary mission of the Marine Corps is to provide Fleet Marine Forces of combined arms, together with supporting air components, for service with the fleet in the seizure of advanced naval bases and for the conduct of such land operations as may be essential for the prosecution of a naval campaign. The Corps is also responsible for developing, in coordination with other military services, the tactics, doctrine, techniques and equipment employed by landing forces in amphibious operations.

From the deployment of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 362 (HMM-362) to Vietnam in April of 1962, to the assistance rendered to refugees fleeing the fall of the South in 1975, this series covers the many activities in which the Marine Corps was engaged during the Vietnam War. Photographs include scenes from combat and evacuation operations (Operation Prairie and Operation Eagle Pull, for example); personalities such as President Ngo Dinh Diem (in 1959), Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, Walter Cronkite, Francis Cardinal Spellman, and entertainers such as Martha Raye and Bob Hope. In addition, there are views of interactions between Marine Corps personnel and Vietnamese civilians, ranging from MEDCAP activities (Medical Civilian Action Program) to parties for local children (see under heading "Vietnamese Civilian Life"). Also in this series are photos of Operation Homecoming, the return of American Marine prisoners of war to the United States. At the end of this series are two donated collections from Capt. Edwin W. Besch (the Commanding Officer of the Headquarters Company of the 4th Marines) and from Maj. Robert G. Handrahan. The subjects in these collections are Cam Lo and Dong Ha in 1966, views of Operations Holt, Double Eagle II, and Utah, and of captured Viet Cong weapons.

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