A Marine, Lance Corporal F. V. Weahkee from K Company, 5th Marines, is shown searching through a complex of Viet Cong tunnels and caves during Operation HAPA on September 8, 1966. This operation took place approximately eight miles northwest of Tan Ky, South Vietnam.

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