"L. Preston Brown's photograph captured Lance Corporal Stephen P. Kindred of Clayton, GA pouring rice paddy water over the hot 60 machine gun barrel of Corporal Mitchell Smith from Baltimore, MD during a fire fight with the Viet Cong on Operation Jackson in Quang Ngai Province. They belonged to the Second Platoon of "M" Company, Third Battalion, Seventh Marines."

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