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A US M-110 SP 8-inch howitzer fires at Alpha Four (Con Thien) providing fire support for South Vietnamese now manning the base, south of DMZ on 23 July 1971

20/25 July 1967- Operation BEAR CHAIN: 2/3 Marines amphibious landing 15 miles north of Hue, the 34th marine amphibious assault since landing in Vietnam in March 1965 (four photos)

Spotted by a OH-6 Loach minutes before, Heliborne 75th/9th Division rangers rush into a Viet Cong camp just after guerrillas who fled, in Longan province south of Saigon, 25 July 1969

M-113s, one nicknamed “Devils Undertaker”, and a OH-6 Loach observation helicopter, Vietnam 24 July 1971

LAM SON 72: ARVN paratroopers advance through the rubble of bombed out homes near Quang Tri city on 24 July 1972

121st Assault Helicopter Company, the Soc Trang Tigers, its gun platoon known as the Vikings, based in Soc Trang 60 km southeast of Can Tho in Mekong Delta, 24 July 1968; video 2:17

MACON: Marine checks identity of Vietnamese civilian at check point south of Da Nang, July 1966

MACON: Marine engineers work on extension of Liberty Road from Da Nang to AnHoa, July 1966; here laying down abutments for a pontoon ferry across Ky Lam at location of Liberty Bridge

4 July/28 October 1966- Operation MACON: Marines expand the Da Nang enclave and completing Liberty Road to An Hoa industrial complex

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Dollar Ninety-eighters of C/1-6 Americal cross a rice field while on patrol 20 miles south of Chu Lai, July 1970

A wounded communist prisoner is led in for questioning in district headquarters at Kompong Speu, Cambodia on 23 July 1970

23 July 1970: Firebase RIPCORD was evacuated after a 23-day artillery siege that killed 74 American soldiers, ending the last major American battle of the Vietnam War

MajGen Robert Worley, deputy commander of 7th Air Force, was killed when the RF-4C Phantom recon jet he was piloting was shot down by enemy ground fire 65 miles northwest of Da Nang on 23 July 1968. He was the second general officer killed in the Vietnam War

22 July 1968: rightist American Patriots for Freedom bomb left-wing book store in NYC

Vanguard of Thailand’s 1,500 hundred strong Black Panther Division debarking at Saigon on 22 July 1968

Sgt William Christensen of 75th rangers dropped off on a recon mission in Longan province south of Saigon on 22 July 1969

22 July 1970: LtCol Andre Lucas and Capt Chuck Hawkins write the epitaph on RIPCORD's tombstone on its bloodiest day, and Sid Berry decides to evacuate

Soldiers of 2/18 Ist Infantry rucked up for mission near Loc Ninh in Operation EL PASO II, July 1966

21 July 1954: the Geneva Accords were signed, ending the First Indochina War