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US Parachute Combat Jump In Vietnam War
US paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, jump out of C-130 planes into War Zone C on D day of Operation Junction City in the Vietnam War, Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, February 22, 1967. The troopers parachute into the drop zone three kilometers north of Katum in the only combat parachute jump of the war, and the first US combat parachute assault since the Korean War. (Photo by Co Rentmeester/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)