Marine from Company E, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines, carefully opens an entrance to an NVA Kitchen and Bunker complex on July 18, 1968. The photo depicts a moment during a sweep from Helicopter Valley to the top of Hutters Ridge, where the Marine unit uncovered the complex.

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