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From the S&S archives: Man's best friend proves proverb again in Vietnam

Photos by Bill Becker, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Tuesday, March 14, 1967
Infantrymen from 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry, with valuable canine assistance, take part in the 25th Division's Operation Waialua in Long An Province, South Vietnam, in March, 1967.

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A handler adjusts his dog's harness before the start of a search-and-destroy mission near the Cambodian border. The unit's dogs were valuable in detecting enemy troops.

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Soldiers move out on a sweep through rice-paddy country where two enemy battalions were suspected to be operating.

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His face smudged from biting the dust in burned-out rice paddies, a 25th Division soldier hikes through a search-and-destroy mission.

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Infantrymen, assisted by their dog, move cautiously.

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An infantryman from the 25th Division trudges along under the weight of an M-16 rifle, a Light Anti-Tank Weapon, ammunition belts for an M-60 machine gun, and his own gear. He is part of a multi-battalion force from the division conducting Operation Waialua in Long An Province.

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A dog stands over his handler, who was wounded by a mine.

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A 25th Division helicopter arrives to take two soldiers wounded by a mine to the 12th Evac Hospital in Cu Chi.

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Wounded soldiers are unloaded at the 12th Evac Hospital in Cu Chi.

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