The image captures a 106-mm recoilless rifle being fired by the enemy during a sweep operation in Arizona Territory in May 1969. Sergeant Major C. M. Burks from Monticello, Arkansas, can be seen observing the impact. This photograph was taken by Sergeant John Mullins of the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam.

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