"A Marine from Battery 3rd Battalion 12th Regiment prepares the breach of a 155mm Howitzer before a fire mission against positions during Operation Prairie I on October 24, 1966. The unit was stationed on the Artillery Plateau, near Dong Ha, about eight miles northwest of the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. Defense Department Photo."

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