Marine radioman LCpl Thomas Richards from Redwood City, California washes mud off his M-16 rifle after the Third Division Leather-neck dove into a muddy hole during an enemy artillery barrage north of Dong Ha. The photo was taken on May 28, 1968, during Operation Kentucky in Vietnam.

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