Golf Company Marines and recon men from D Company, 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, evade a Viet Cong ambush during a firefight on Operation Allegheny. The image captures the Marines racing through a clearing between burning structures as they counter-attack the enemy. This event occurred on August 22, 1966 in Vietnam.

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