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Men in uniform walk through burning fields of tall grass.

Operation Hastings

Marines of the 3rd Platoon, Company H, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, move through burned-over rice paddies during Operation Hastings in the Dong Ha area of Vietnam in 1966.

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