File:175mm Gun, Ashau Valley, 1 August 1967 (22311536318).jpg

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"175mm Guns to Ashau: Brigadier General Louis Metzger, Assistant Division Commander, 3d Marine Division, pulls the lanyard sending the first 175mm projectile hurtling into the Ashau valley on 1 August 1967. A battery of 175m guns commanded by Captain Michael Clay (Milledgeville, Georgia) is operating from a forward artillery position in support of Marine operations into the Ashau valley, long a Viet Cong stronghold (Defense Department photo)."

From the Jonathan Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections.

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