{"id":614,"date":"2018-01-15T15:44:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/vietnamportraits\/?p=614"},"modified":"2018-01-15T15:44:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T20:44:02","slug":"cambodian-incursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/vietnamportraits\/2018\/01\/15\/cambodian-incursion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodian Incursion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>American Base Camp on the Vietnam\/Cambodian Border 1970<\/p>\n

In the spring of 1970, when Nixon sent troops across the Cambodian border, in what was called the Cambodian Incursion, he asked for\u00a0photo documentation of ammunition cashes to appease congressional critics.\u00a0 Just back from R&R in Hawaii where I had gotten married only a week before, I received a call from military headquarters asking that all available photographers be sent into Cambodia.\u00a0 My motion picture news team was covering a story on a Navy ship in the South China Sea, keeping busy while I was on R&R, so without giving it a second thought (after just getting married) I got on a plane for Pleiku and then a chopper to a base camp near the Cambodian border.<\/p>\n

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Combat photographer preparing photograph captions, Pleiku.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once in Cambodia, there wasn\u2019t much to see.\u00a0 At the site of an ammunition cache American troops who had been there for days, had already left.\u00a0 The weapons cache was about to be reduced to rubble.\u00a0 After photographing the explosions from the air we moved on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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