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Huey helicopters airlift members of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, to a staging area for a search-and-destroy mission northwest of Saigon on May 16, 1966, as part of the U.S. Cold War mission to confront communism across the globe. (National Archives)