Lance Corporal Lowder Jr., a gunner in the Second Battalion, Third Marines, H&S Company, is seen in this photograph taken on July 18, 1968. He is looking through the sights of his 81mm mortar as he prepares to fire at suspected enemy positions during Operation Lancaster II in Vietnam.

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