Caption: Up to the Task - On February 19, 1966, during Operation Double Eagle, Phase II, Staff Sergeant Merton Goodeagle, platoon sergeant from F Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, confidently holds a .45 caliber Thompson sub-machine gun. The weapon was captured from a wounded Viet Cong soldier by the courageous Marine.

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