Three MACV-SOG team members pose with a captured portrait of Ho Chi Minh, taken from an enemy headquarters overrun during Operation Tailwind, the September 1970 cross-border raid into Laos. This image, from the Gene McCarley Collection, captures the raw aftermath of one of the most daring and controversial covert operations of the Vietnam War, in which a small Hatchet Force team penetrated deep into hostile territory against a heavily defended enemy logistics base. Project: 219480