This is a 5-ton LARC-V amphibious vehicle. A highly successful amphioxus truck, they entered service in 1963 and remain in use today.
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Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
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The vehicle did see use in the Vietnam War.
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World Airlines made its fourth and last refugee evacuation flight from Da Nang. The flight was designed to take out refugees, but 400 ARVN soldiers forced their way onto the plane. At the same time, the NVA entered the city center.
Of the ARVN in I Corps, 16,000 of the 160,000 in the area managed to escape. And of course, while they could not know it, for the most part all of the people escaping would soon simply be further south in the country when the Communist prevailed.
Da Nang had been the site of the first U.S. Marine Corps landings in Vietnam on March 8, 1965.
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The M151 "Mutt" entered service in 1959 and carried on into the 1990s. It had fantastic off road capabilities, and was also fantastically dangerous, given its independent wheel suspension system.
The last Jeep to see general use in the U.S. military, it was replaced by HumVeh's, although speciality vehicles, and even modern commercial Jeeps, continue to see some use. In these examples, the radio mount for a period radio is displayed.
These remained in use during the Korean War and into the 1960s when it was replaced by the M88.
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the cleanup of agent orange at the former US air base, Bien Hoa, outside of Saigon. They also stopped payments for work already completed.
The South Vietnamese didn't ask for us to abandon them to their fate, and they didn't ask for us to leave a chemical disaster.
This is wrong.
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The Weather Underground bombed the State Department building in Washington, D.C.