Reconnaissance team members from the Marine Corps scramble onto a CH-46D helicopter from HMM-253 during an emergency extraction in the uue Son Mountains, located 18 miles south of Danang, Vietnam. The photograph was taken on October 17, 1970 by GySgt Mahan.

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