Archive photo of the day
Operation Attleboro, 1966
Stars and Stripes
May 24, 2022
(Kim Ki Sam/Stars and Stripes)
South Vietnam, 1966: A 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry “Wolfhounds” radioman bandages the arm of his battalion commander, Maj. Guy S. Meloy III, during Operation Attleboro in the jungles of Tay Ninh Province. Meloy, the son of the former commander of U.S. Forces in Korea, eventually rose to the rank of major general. Read more here.