Tan Son Nhut
by U S Signal Corps
Title
Tan Son Nhut
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U S Signal Corps
Medium
Painting - Photograph
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Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam, 1968. A twelve year old Vietnamese ARVN Airborne trooper who had been "adopted" by the Airborne Division, holding a M-79 grenade launcher. The picture was taken during a sweep of an Airborne Task Force Unit through the devastated area surrounding the French National Cemetery on Plantation Road after a day long battle there.
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March 12th, 2015
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Broken Soldier
I can only hope that he was just "posing" with the weapon and not actually trained to employ it.
U S Signal Corps replied:
It is my understanding that he was an orphan and adopted by the troops as a mascot. And yes I think he is just posing. But I really don't know all of the details.
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