A Marine from the last Battalion, 9th Marines, finds a Chinese Communist grenade during a patrol in Vietnam on July 8, 1966. The photograph, taken by Cpl. Armstrong of the 3rd Marine Division, captures the captured weapon. Labelled as DEFENSE DEPT. PHOTO (MARINE CORES) A187532 xwm.

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