Marines of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, navigate a Viet Cong barbed wire fence embedded with thorn bushes and punji stakes during Operation BLUE MARLIN in Vietnam on November 10, 1965. This photograph depicts Vietnamese weapons and traps encountered by American military personnel during the Vietnam War. DEFENSE (MARINE CORPS) A186114 Xum 127 GVB -366

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