The Don Englebreston Collection

Google Earth Wide Oblique View Titled RT Vermont from Hatchet Force, with Two Annotated Placemarks, Modern Screen Capture

Google Earth Wide Oblique View Titled RT Vermont from Hatchet Force, with Two Annotated Placemarks, Modern Screen Capture

A present-day Google Earth capture, not a wartime photograph, titled by its maker RT Vermont from Hatchet Force. Two markers are placed on the forested terrain, one for a proposed Hatchet Force position in the foreground and one, several kilometers distant, for the point where RT Vermont is believed to have encountered a booby trap; the question marks in both labels acknowledge the uncertainty. A boundary line runs across the view, a reminder that MACV-SOG reconnaissance operated across national frontiers. Views like this are built by veterans and historians to translate wartime grid coordinates back into recognizable ground. Project: 219841