[Smoke in landing zone]

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Title

[Smoke in landing zone]

Description

Photograph of plumes of smoke in a helicopter landing zone in Vietnam, circa 1970-1971. The photo was taken from a Bell UH-1H Iroquois (Huey) helicopter of the 240th Assault Helicopter Company during an air assault.

Caption from donor: "Explosions on LZ; ours or VC??? Time on the ground is [not] longer than 1 second. Troops jump off the helicopter. Anyone not off the helicopter in 1 second is coming out with us."

Date

1970-1971 circa

Coverage

Vietnam

Creator

Kam, Calvin H.

Rights

In copyright

Bibliographic Citation

The Calvin H. and Yun Yau Kam Papers/The Museum of Flight

Identifier

2017-03-24_image_008_01