The Don Englebreston Collection
Gallery: McCarley Finals
Hatchet Force troops in tiger-stripe camouflage file aboard a CH-53 helicopter under a crew member's direction, caught in the moments before a mission launches. Drawn from the Gene McCarley Collection, the image records the men and machines behind MACV-SOG's clandestine ground operations, including the September 1970 raid into Laos known as Operation Tailwind.
SOG Indigenous Team Member Packing Field Gear at Sandbagged Position, Gene McCarley Collection
