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14-4-1972 Chơn Thành: binh sĩ thuộc binh chủng Nhảy Dù được vận chuyển nhanh đến bãi đáp trực thăng để chi viện cho An Lộc

14 Apr 1972, Chon Thanh, Vietnam --- 4/14/1972-Chon Thanh, Vietnam: ARVN paratroopers, members of Saigon's elite Presidential Palace guard, speed down the highway on a truck toward the landing zone in the outskirts of Chon Thanh. They were part of an armored relief column spearheading drive up Highway 13 towards embattled provincial capital of An Loc, which North Vietnamese forces hope to capture and make a provisional capital for the Viet Cong, but had been stalled some 18 miles below the town by intense Communist artillery and mortar fire. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

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Uploaded on February 25, 2009
Taken on February 25, 2009