US Marine Private First Class E. Machado of Modesto, California, takes aim at a deadly bamboo anake during OPERATION WAR BONNET in Vietnam, January 1966. Private First Class Machado serves as a rifleman in 2nd squad, Company H, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines, as seen in this Defense Department photo.

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