Accession Number: 2020-035-06
Original work: oil on canvas
Original size: 24.25 by 18.25 inches
In mid-October of 1968 multiple divisions of the US Navy’s Mobile Riverine Task Force 117, River Assault Squadron 9 (part of what had earlier been formed as the “Brown Water Navy,) traveled north on the Ham Luong River just upstream from the city of Ben Tre in the Mekong River Delta with US Army forces aboard. Most of the vessels depicted were called “Tango Boats,” or Armored Troop Carriers (ATCs.) These boats were used by the US Navy to transport and provide cover fire during insertion and extraction forces of the Army’s Ninth Infantry Division according to their military objectives in the delta. Waterways served as the “highways” of this region, and the US Navy was tasked with keeping them open for friendly military and civilian economic use while at the same time interdicting the transport of enemy forces and materials.
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