Marines cleaning mud-covered M-14 rifles during Operation DeSoto, January 30, 1967. Lance Corporal J. R. Anthony and his fellow Marines advance towards Viet Cong positions despite heavy sniper fire. The Leathernecks of "I" Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Regiment, crawled from one rice paddy dike to the next until they reached a sheltered waterhole.

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