Archive photo of the day
ARCHIVE PHOTO OF THE DAYCanine companion, 1967
Stars and Stripes
December 3, 2019
Bill Becker ©Stars and StripesSouth Vietnam, March, 1967: A dog stands watch while his master, a 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry soldier wounded by a mine on a search-and-destroy mission, receives medical attention. Dogs were used during the 25th Division's Operation Waialua to help find enemy troops operating between the Oriental River and the Cambodian border, about 25 miles northwest of Saigon.