Marines participate in Operation DeSoto, using a 50 caliber machine gun with the 3rd Battalion, Seventh Marine Regiment. This photograph, taken on February 25, 1967, captures the intense training and use of US weapons during the Vietnam War. (Caption given in factual style)

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