Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day

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Brenda Elthon
Sep 05, 2023
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On this day in 1968, SGT Joseph Ewing Smith, a 22-year-old medic in an Army Special Forces unit, died from wounds suffered while on a combat mission near Châu Đốc, a city in the Mekong Delta region of South Vietnam near the Cambodian border.

He was hit by a booby-trapped grenade.

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