A Marine rifleman with H Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, can be seen leaping over a break in a rice paddy dike during a search and destroy mission on Operation COLORADO in Vietnam on August 15, 1966. The photograph was taken by SSgt. Fleetwood. DEFENSE (MARINE CORPS) A369409 WE

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