A rare in-flight combat photograph from Operation Tailwind, June 1970, showing smoke rising from a jungle hillside in Laos as an AH-1 Cobra gunship, call sign 'Scarface,' provides close air support to a MACV-SOG reconnaissance team operating on the ground below. Photographs like this, taken under fire and often with limited equipment, offer a rare firsthand glimpse of the intensity of cross-border special operations missions during the Vietnam War. Project: 219490