<p>"Preparing a Charge: Sergeant R. L. Slemons, 24 (Lewiston, Pennsylvania) prepares a charge on the end of a pole that he’ll blow an enemy tunnel complex with.  Slemons, a combat engineer attached to the 26th Marines, is participating in Operation Bold Mariner in Quang Ngai province, South Vietnam (official USMC photo by Lance Corporal W. R. Schaaf)."
</p><p>From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives &amp; Special Collections
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OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
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