The Don Englebreston Collection
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Images from the Gene McCarley Collection follow a MACV-SOG Hatchet Force through Operation Tailwind: Marine CH-53 Sea Stallions with ramps down, Montagnard fighters at rest, captured ordnance on the jungle floor, and team members holding a Ho Chi Minh portrait taken from an overrun enemy headquarters. Assembled by the captain who commanded the ground force during the September 1970 raid into Laos, the set documents the insertions, extractions, and tiger-stripe-clad partnerships at the heart of SOG's covert war along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Briefing Room at MACV-SOG Launch Site with Operations Board, Vietnam War Era
MACV-SOG Mission Briefing, Operation Tailwind Launch Site
SOG Reconnaissance Team Boarding Helicopter, Gene McCarley Collection
Team Assembled with Gear at Forward Operating Base, Vietnam War Era
Soldiers Entering Base Camp Past Guard Tower, Vietnam War Era
MACV-SOG Team Near Helicopter, Gene McCarley Collection, Operation Tailwind
Handshake Greeting on Airfield Beside Helicopter Ramp, Vietnam War Era
Servicemen Supporting Wounded Comrade Near Helicopter, McCarley Collection (Operation Tailwind), Slide 16
SOG Team Members and UH-1 Helicopter, Gene McCarley Operation Tailwind Collection
Captured Ordnance Crate with Finned Munitions, Vietnam War Era (Final Retouched Version)
Captured Ordnance Crate with Finned Munitions, Vietnam War Era
Captured Enemy Ordnance Crate and Weapon, Operation Tailwind, Laos, 1970
Interior View of Helicopter Cargo Bay with Reconnaissance Team, Operation Tailwind Era
Gene McCarley and 'Koch' at MACV-SOG Camp, Vietnam War Era (McCarley Collection, Slide 2)
Reconnaissance Team Member Crouched in Jungle Undergrowth, Vietnam War Era
MACV-SOG Reconnaissance Team Staging for Mission — Gene McCarley Collection
Column of Soldiers Passing Guard Tower at Base Camp Gate, Vietnam War Era
'Home of the Spads' Squadron Sign, 56th Special Operations Wing
Indigenous Troops Staging at Forward Base Camp, MACV-SOG Operations, Southeast Asia
SOG Hatchet Force Troops Boarding CH-53 Helicopter, Operation Tailwind Staging Area
Special Forces Team Boarding Helicopter, Vietnam War Era
MACV-SOG Hatchet Force Troops Boarding Truck, Gene McCarley Collection, Operation Tailwind Era (1970)
Tiger-Stripe Camouflaged Troops Loading onto Truck, MACV-SOG Operation Tailwind Era, 1970
Personnel and Helicopter at Landing Zone, Operation Tailwind Collection
Marine CH-53 Sea Stallion Helicopter with SOG Ground Team, Operation Tailwind, Laos, September 1970
MACV-SOG Ground Team Boarding CH-53 Helicopter, Operation Tailwind, Laos Border Area, September 1970
Camouflaged Jungle Shelter with Loaded Soldier, MACV-SOG / Operation Tailwind Collection
SOG Soldier Approaching Enemy Base Camp Structure, Operation Tailwind, Laos, 1970
MACV-SOG Personnel Reviewing Documents at Forward Base Camp, Operation Tailwind Era, circa 1970
Man in Field Gear in Defoliated Forest, MACV-SOG Reconnaissance Area, Vietnam/Laos Border
McCarley and Koch, MACV-SOG Personnel in Tiger-Stripe Camouflage — Gene McCarley Collection (Operation Tailwind)
Gene McCarley and "Koch" at a Forward Base Camp, Vietnam — Gene McCarley Collection, Slide 7
MACV-SOG Team Members with Captured Ho Chi Minh Portrait, Operation Tailwind, September 1970
Montagnard Soldier of MACV-SOG Exploitation Force, Operation Tailwind, Gene McCarley Collection
SOG Soldier at Helicopter Ramp, Gene McCarley Operation Tailwind Collection
