Marine engineers conduct a controlled demolition to destroy enemy bunkers during Operation Meade River in Vietnam. The area had to be searched and secured before the bunkers were blown. Operation Meade River was the largest helicopter assault in Marine Corps history. Photographed by SSgt John A. Reid in 1968.

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