South Vietnam, circa 1970. The perimeter of an American compound, seen from the road outside the wire: a low fence, a deep belt of tangled concertina, a sandbagged guard tower with a firing slit, and beyond them the corrugated-metal buildings and lattice radio masts of a headquarters installation. The flag of the Republic of Vietnam flies at left. The photograph comes from the papers of Barry Pencek, held within the Operation Tailwind files of the Donald L. Engebretsen collection; Tailwind, the MACV-SOG Hatchet Force raid into southern Laos in September 1970, was mounted from special operations compounds of this kind at Kontum and Dak To. Project: 219425