Blasting Support For A Leatherneck Patrol: U.S. Marine artillery blasts from Firebase Cunningham in support of a Marine patrol which made contact with North Vietnamese more than 430 yards away, March 2, 1969. The firebase is one of several hilltop bases along the Laos border in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam
Photographs20th century

Blasting Support For A Leatherneck Patrol: U.S. Marine artillery blasts from Firebase Cunningham in support of a Marine patrol which made contact with North Vietnamese more than 430 yards away, March 2, 1969. The firebase is one of several hilltop bases along the Laos border in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam

1969

Artists

Yvon CornuArtist
Classification
Photographs
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Medium
Vintage Associated Press wirephoto
Century
20th century
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Department
Department of Photographs

Dimensions

18.4 × 21.9 cm (7 1/4 × 8 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Doug and Joan Hansen, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

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Blasting Support For A Leatherneck Patrol: U.S. Marine artillery blasts from Firebase Cunningham in support of a Marine patrol which made contact with North Vietnamese more than 430 yards away, March 2, 1969. The firebase is one of several hilltop bases along the Laos border in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam | Harvard Art Museums | KenAI