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A row of Piasecki H-21 helicopters, nicknamed “Flying Bananas,” are ready to be loaded up with South Vietnamese troops in March 1963. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
AP Photo/Horst Faas
A row of Piasecki H-21 helicopters, nicknamed “Flying Bananas,” are ready to be loaded up with South Vietnamese troops in March 1963. (AP Photo/Horst Faas)
AP Photo/Horst Faas