The Don Englebreston Collection
Gene McCarley and Fellow Servicemen Display Captured Enemy Pennant, Operation Tailwind, Vietnam War (Gene McCarley Collection)
Gene McCarley, ground force commander for the classified Operation Tailwind incursion into Laos, joins fellow servicemen in displaying a captured enemy pennant. Conducted in September 1970 by MACV Studies and Observations Group (SOG) forces, Operation Tailwind became one of the most daring and controversial covert missions of the Vietnam War. Project: 219448