Photo Album '68, Page 23
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Night was near when two great birds beat through the clouds to squat upon the runway - two gaping-beaked, potbellied prehistoric birds: messengers come now to carry off the fallen men of the day's battle.  Marines from Khe Sanh joining those other men killed in all other wars.  Then they were gone and it was night.
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Photo by; David Douglas Duncan 
The monsoon clouds had lifted and the fixed wing aircraft were delivering napalm around the perimeter of Khe Sanh.
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Photo by: 1stLt. Bruce M. Geiger 
Fox holes and trenches always seemed miles away - on the other side of the world - when rocket barrages began crashing upon the Marines at Khe Sanh.  The 26th Marines lived like prairie dogs, in and out of their vast colony of bunkers.
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Photo by: David Douglas Duncan 
Marines scattered  like rats for the nearest trench line or bunker and waited in sheer terror for the endless barrage to be over.
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Photo by: David Douglas Duncan 
Major Leonard R. Demko and the crew of YK-13 were killed on Feb. 5, 1968 while executing a medical evacuation in or near Hue City.  The larger image of Maj. Demko is of better quality.
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Photo submitted by: 
Kelly M. Lea (Maj. Demko's niece) 

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