This twelve-year old ARVN Airborne trooper poses with an M79 grenade launcher during a sweep through the devastated Plantation Road area after a day-long battle near Tan Son Nhut during the Vietnam War. The young soldier had been "adopted" by the US Army Airborne Division.Photo credit: J.F. Fitzpatrick, Jr., SPC5, U.S. Army Signal Corps
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