South Vietnam, May 1967: Moving in a tactical formation, South Vietnamese Army “rag boats” ferry U.S. troops from the 25th Infantry Division down the Saigon River on the edge of the Boi Loi Woods, near Cu Chi, during Operation Manhattan. The World War II-vintage boats dropped the patrols off at hard-to-reach places along the river where enemy troops might be hiding.

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