The Don Englebreston Collection

Google Earth Pro Oblique Screen Capture with Placemark 'RT Vermont at Booby Trap???'

Google Earth Pro Oblique Screen Capture with Placemark 'RT Vermont at Booby Trap???'

A present-day Google Earth Pro screen capture, used as a research tool rather than as a historical image. The oblique three-dimensional view looks across forested ridges in the former operating area of MACV-SOG reconnaissance teams, with a yellow placemark labelled 'RT Vermont at Booby Trap???' marking a proposed - not confirmed - location for an incident involving Recon Team Vermont. Modern features are clearly visible: a graded dirt road and a small settlement of blue-roofed buildings. Veterans and researchers increasingly use satellite terrain modelling of this kind to reconcile wartime map coordinates, after-action reports and memory against the ground as it exists today. Project: 219849