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From 1965 through 1972 many of the units mentioned in this detachment Time Line were at one time assigned to military police and security duties at Can Tho, separately or jointly. All have Vietnam era website's hosted by the Battalion.

As a result, the Can Tho Detachment histories of the 615th MP Company, 188th MP Company, 148th MP Platoon, 22nd Provost Marshal Office, and B Company, 720th MP Battalion have been combined in this detachment time line to provide the appropriate historical continuity.

1965

In 1965 the future U.S. troop buildup was in the planning stages, and primarily focused on the three northern Corps Tactical Zones (I, II & III) to prevent the country from being separated by the North Vietnamese Army elements located in I & III Corps Tactical Zone, and their threat against the capital of Saigon in III Corps Tactical Zone.

At that time the Mekong Delta of IV Corps Tactical Zone was not considered a major threat, and was assigned to the Army of the Republic of South Vietnam (ARVN) under Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) Headquarters Advisory Program, Saigon. Consisting of a few tactical air, artillery, engineer and Naval logistical support units, the U.S. troop strength was very minimal.

Can Tho was the capital of Phong Dinh Province, IV Corps Tactical Zone. Situated in the center of South Vietnam’s economically and military vital Mekong Delta, it was the hub of U.S. Naval operations in that region. The site was chosen because of its location to the Hau and Bassac Rivers, making Can Tho ideal as a base from which naval forces could operate against Viet Cong supply traffic on the surrounding rivers and smaller waterways. Another attractive feature was the city’s accessibility to logistic vessels deployed in the South China Sea.

In addition to the naval facilities there was also an Army Airfield located in the Can Tho area that was home to several helicopter assault units.

Two major delta area highways important to the Vietnamese agrarian economy and allied military resupply convoys also intersected the city. Highway QL-4 (The Peoples Road) from Vinh Long (northeast) to Soc Trang (southwest) and LTL-27 (north) to the Cambodian border area. There were no bridges across the Bassac River in Can Tho so two ferries were used to provide access to Highway QL-4.

To provide the U.S. elements with discipline, law and order support, the area was assigned to the only MP Battalion in-country at that time, the 716th MP Battalion headquartered in the Saigon Military District in III CTZ. It is believed that at that time the only military police support within the IV CTZ was a small remote detachment from the 615th MP Company stationed at Can Tho, the hub of U.S. Naval logistic support to the region.

WANTED: If you can provide any operational details of their mission or photographs of their compound, please notify the History Project Manager.

615th MP Company is relieved by the 560th MP Company

September The 560th MP Company subordinate to MACV, opened a detachment in Can Tho relieving elements of the 615th MP Company of their Can Tho assignment.

The 720th MP Battalion Reunion Association History Project has a policy of not duplicating Time Lines of other military police units that maintain their own history website's. To review the history of the 560th MP Company in Vietnam, use this link to visit Chuck Klotz's comprehensive 560th MP Company Website.

Miscellaneous Photographs

1966

March, exact date unknown The 3rd Platoon, 560th MP Company, MACV was assigned to the detachment in Can Tho. Members of the platoon initiated a construction project during which they reinforced the Vietnamese villa and constructed the outbuilding of the compound that would eventually be used as the Can Tho MP Headquarters and billets for the next seven years. Click here for early photographs of the 560th MP Detachment and construction project.

15 March The 89th MP Group arrived in Vietnam and was assigned by MACV to coordinate all non divisional military police unit activities in all four Corps Tactical Zones until the arrival of the 18th MP Brigade on 8 September, quickly followed by the 16th MP Group on 11 September who were assigned all military activities in I & II CTZ.

89th MP

Group

8 September The 18th MP Brigade arrived in Saigon and was assigned subordinate to MACV. Their mission was to coordinate all non divisional military police unit activities in all four Corps Tactical Zones through the 16th (I&II CTZ) and 89th (II & IV CTZ) MP Groups .

18th MP

Brigade

November Direct radio communications between the remote detachment and Saigon were poor, so the 89th MP Group tasked the 720th MP Battalion (Long Binh Post) to have their Radio Teletype Unit of HQ Detachment assign three communications specialists to the 560th MP Company Can Tho Detachment to operate a new Radio Teletype Station.

SGT Ronald Wonders, SP/4’s Robert D. Bell and Carl G. Brewer, trained as MOS 05C - Radio Teletype Operators (RTTs), manned the radio box located in a bunker beside the motor pool.

The three lived in the Villa with the MPs of the 560th. The three RTT's built the bunker with 55 gallon drums filled with sand and surrounded it with stacked sand bags.

During their shifts the RTTs received messages pertaining to captured enemy prisoners under their call sign of UL8K, and relayed them to Vinh Long, call sign 4SIJ.

The unit was still operational in October 1967 when SP/4 Brewer departed.

Miscellaneous Photographs

G2043

HQ Detachment, 720th RTTO's SP/4's Carl Brewer and Zarrillo or Sarillo (spell?) on the Can Tho Ferry.

1967

The 148th MP Platoon moves into IV CTZ.

June The 148th MP Platoon, 557th MP Company, 95th MP Battalion was assigned OPCON to the IV Corps Provost Marshal Office Headquarters, 92nd MP Battalion to conduct discipline, law and order patrols in and around Can Tho. The Platoon had just been reformed and the nucleus of the administrative staff were assigned from the 560th MP Company. The 148th was now under operational control of the 557th MP Company, 95th MP Battalion (Long Binh Post). They worked combined patrols with the Can Tho Can Sat's (Vietnamese National Police).

95th MP

Battalion

As soon as they completed orientation a detachment of approximately ten MP's were reassigned from Can Tho to staff the 92nd MP Battalion Vinh Long MP Station.

27 August A predawn Viet Cong mortar attack on the city of Can Tho killed sixty-six persons and wounded 227, including five US troops.

92nd MP

Battalion

The shelling was part of a series of coordinated attacks around the country. Officials believed the attacks were the beginning of a Viet Cong attempt to show the South Vietnamese that their government and the allied forces could not provide security and that it would be dangerous for them to try to vote in the national elections scheduled for Sunday, 3 September. The shelling was aimed primarily at the US military compound, and it is believed that strong winds forced some of the shells off target onto a Vietnamese military hospital.

The well coordinated barrage of more than 100 rounds of 83 mm mortar and 75 mm recoilless rifle fire lasted only ten minutes. Several of the rounds tore through the Vietnamese hospital compound. Thirteen Vietnamese were killed in the hospital and thirty-eight were wounded. Some of the patient victims were soldiers. Others who died and were wounded were family members of the soldiers, many of them children. The family members were staying at the hospital with the patients, as is often the custom of the Vietnamese.

Seven enemy positions believed to be where the barrage came from were discovered south of the city across the Can Tho River.

Miscellaneous Photographs

1968

The 188th Moves into IV Corps Tactical Zone

At the beginning of 1968 the Can Tho Detachment was staffed by elements of the 148th MP Platoon (subordinate to the IV Corps PMO Headquarters), and 560th MP Company.

31 January During the Tet New Years Offensive the heaviest hit target was the Can Tho Air Field. Allied and ARVN units defended Can Tho during a major four day battle in the city. The fighting within the city finally ended when the last of the VC were routed from the university building. However, numerous mop up operations continued throughout the area around Can Tho City for many weeks after the major fighting ceased.

During the fighting in the city an enemy rocket struck the MP compound building on the second floor, no casualties were reported. It was later determined that one of the VC rocket positions was located on the grounds of a Buddhist Temple.

Shortly after the Tet Offensive (January-February) the operational, administrative and logistics support for the 148th MP Platoon changed from the 557th MP Company, 95th MP Battalion (Long Binh Post) to the 300th MP Company (Physical Security Saigon Military Port), 92nd MP Battalion, located at Pershing Field, Saigon.

1 April The headquarters of the 188th MP Company moved to Can Tho (IV Corps Tactical Zone) from Pershing Field, Saigon and replaced elements of the HQ Detachment and 3rd Platoon of the 560th MP Company, both were subordinate to the 92nd MP Battalion.

The MPs moved into the Seminary Compound with members of MACV Team #99, and performed combined patrols with the Vietnamese National Police (Canh Sat) and Vietnamese Military Police (Quan Canh).

92nd MP

Battalion

It is believed that the 148th MP Platoon at Can Tho was assimilated in to or redesignated as a 188th MP Company platoon sometime after this move. If you can provide verification of the exact date, please contact the History Project Manager via the Email Link at the top of the page.

Miscellaneous Photographs

G2007	188th elements escort convoy from Saigon to Can Tho.
G2008	Members of 188th V100 crew in Can Tho.

1969

In 1969 the Can Tho Detachment was staffed by members of the 188th MP Company and 22nd Provost Marshal Office Detachment, both subordinate to the 92nd MP Battalion.

29 January Members of the 22nd Provost Marshal Office Detachment, subordinate to the 92nd MP Battalion, were assigned to staff the Provost Marshal Office Headquarters at Can Tho.

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Northeast View

Southeast View

Northwest View

February 7 A enemy satchel charge is exploded in the Can Tho market place, killing one and wounding three.

South View

Can Tho Market Place

8 March SP/4 Larry R. Crook, Can Tho Detachment, was apprehended and confined to a hospital for psychiatric examination and blood test for alcohol and narcotics abuse. It was alleged and later verified by investigation and courts marshal that SP/4 Crooks opened fire with up to twenty, 40mm M-79 grenade rounds on the compound and surrounding area from the "Crows Nest," a guard tower at the Can Tho Detachment. It was also alleged that his target was the Company Commander CPT Freedman.

The initial rounds fired on the compound by Crook were misinterpreted as an enemy attack, an alert was issued and the other MP’s opened fire thinking they were under attack from outside the compound. Before the error was discovered and SP/4 Crook was identified as the assailant, two south Vietnamese civilians were killed and 11 others were wounded including 9 Americans.

The most seriously wounded was a U.S. Army truck driver who lost his right foot when a grenade round was fired into the cab of his truck. Also among the U.S. casualties, wounded slightly, was CPT Gary M. Freedman the Commanding Officer of the 188th MP Company, SSG James E. O’Fallon (148th MP Platoon) and others yet identified.

SP/4 Crook was an engineer by MOS and had completed one tour. He extended for 6 months and requested and was granted, an MOS change to 95B Military Police then, he was assigned to the 188th.

February/March SGT Harry E. Gree and SP/4’s Steven T. Montgomery and David A. Friel of the 188th MP Company were on a routine village patrol in the Ben Xe Moi section of Can Tho when they responded to the sound of gunfire in an alley. They located an ARVN soldier who had been hit in the leg by sniper fire. The sniper opened fire on the three MPs and SGT Greer rescued the wounded ARVN while his companions gave him cover fire. A subsequent search of the area with supporting troops flailed to uncover the sniper.

July SP/4 Joseph Santee, 2nd Platoon, 188th MP Company, Can Tho Detachment, picked up a letter at the Can Tho USO addressed to any GI. Two Ohio school children wanted to know how they could help the Vietnamese children. SP/4 Santee answered their letter, and through the efforts of an Ohio VFW Post, 1,500 pounds of clothing, food, and medical supplies were delivered to the 188th at Vinh Long. The men from the 188th distributed the materials to two local orphanages.

Miscellaneous Photographs

G2717	SP/4 Frank C. Lopez in the Radio Teletype CONEX.
G2899	SGT Jim Grove on V100 144.
G2905	SP/4 Parrish on the highway.
G3435	SP/4 Trifone with actor Pat O'Brien at the USO Show.
G3435_1	CPT Freedman & MAJ Abishur with actor Pat O'Brien at the USO Show.
G3435_2	PFC Huffman & CPT Freedman with actor Pat O'Brien at the USO Show.

1970

At the beginning of 1969 the Can Tho Detachment was staffed by members of the 188th MP Company, 148th MP Platoon, and 22nd Provost Marshal Office Detachment, all subordinate to the 92nd MP Battalion.

The 92nd is replaced by the 720th in IV CTZ

5 February The 188th MP Company, elements of the 148th MP Platoon, and 22nd Provost Marshal Office, who manned detachments conducting the discipline, law and order assignment in Can Tho were reassigned to the command of the 720th MP Battalion when its parent unit the 92nd MP Battalion was the first MP Headquarters to be deactivated and withdrawn from Vietnam.

720th MP

Battalion

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The Can Tho Detachment Compound was an old three story commercial/residential building, part of a row structure. The first and second floors appeared to be the original building, the third floor appeared to have been added sometime later. It had very few small rooms, mainly it had large open bays or suite's.

Located on the first floor of the Detachment building were the MP Desk, holding cells, day room (Bamboo Lounge), arms room and armorers area, and a small billet area for 4 to 6 enlisted men. It also housed the building land lords.

A small yard and motor pool area was located on the southwest side of the building, that also contained a communications trailer. The compound showers were also located in this area.

On the second floor were the Provost Marshals Office, Criminal Investigations Division (CID) office of two to four investigators, and billets for the majority of the detachment enlisted men. The third floor housed members of the 22nd Provost Marshal Office Detachment.

There was also a small billet for the senior noncommissioned officers (NCO's). All officers were housed in a Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ) building downtown.

The third floor provided access to the roof where three defensive bunkers were located. One bunker contained a 50 cal. machine gun, the other two small arms when staffed. On those occasions when intelligence information dictated possible enemy activity in the city, M-60 machine guns would be added.

Northeast View

Southeast View

Northwest View

The compound building was at the end of the block and in the block there were also, bars, apartments, doctor's offices, and other retail businesses selling all manner of items. Most of the businesses, except the bars and brothels were owned by a man of Indian decent named "Jimmie."

There was no mess hall in the building so the MP's were ferried by 3/4 ton truck to the 5th Special Forces A Team building, just down the street from the detachment compound.

The detachment building had a cistern to collect fresh rain water but you could not drink it, potable water was trucked to the building. The building used city electric power however, the MP compound had two generators in the motor pool yard for emergency electricity because city power went out almost daily and some times hourly.

Detachment communications consisted of military radio and US and Vietnamese telephone lines. There were 3 bunkers on the roof, two of which were manned at night no matter how shorthanded the detachment might be.

From August 1970 through August 1971 the number of detachment enlisted personnel would fluctuate from sixteen to twenty-six men.

June 10 22nd PMO MAJ Crispus C. Nix was assigned as Provost Marshal of IV Corps Tactical Zone, attached to the 22nd Provost Marshal Office Detachment at Can Tho under the 720th MP Battalion.

B Company and the 188th merge during redesignation

September B Company The 720th MP Battalion assumed responsibility for the discipline, law and order mission in Can Tho, IV Corps Tactical Zone, from the 188th MP Company.

The 188th was scheduled for reassignment to Da Nang so to avoid the logistical problem associated with the move, B Company who had just completed their three year assignment from Operation STABILIZE in the Tactical Area of Responsibility, III Corps Tactical Zone, was redesignated as the 188th MP Company and sent to Da Nang in II Corps Tactical Zone, subordinate to the 504th MP Battalion, 16th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade.

504th MP

Battalion

16th MP

Group

The 188th MP Company was redesignated as B Company and remained in their assignments in the Mekong Delta region of IV Corps Tactical Zone.

Before the move the senior MPs from both units were merged to allow for familiarity and continuity of operations in the Delta. Time remaining on ones tour was also used as a factor in the merger.

SSG Murray & unidentified MP

Duties at the Can Tho Detachment consisted of: combined discipline, law and order patrols with the Quan Canh (Vietnamese MP's) and Canh Sat's (Vietnamese National Police); POW hospital guard duties at the 3rd Surgical Hospital; Bassac River Ferry security; Convoy escort; Can Tho City Reaction Force.

The telephone number for the Can Tho Military Police Desk was #2474.

Everything in the Can Tho City area was off limits to U.S. Military personnel unless the building displayed a sign on the door under the heading of the Provost Marshal Office authorizing patronage.

MP patrols were authorized to immediately seize and remove the signs from the front of any business violating the specific rules governing the access status. The MP's would then return the sign and a summary report outlining the reason for the seizure to the Provost Marshals Office.

September-October The 720th MP Battalion Civic Action program provided materials and cement to provide a water station and concrete floor to the 4th Quan Canh (Vietnamese MP) Battalion dependent housing area. Work was delayed due to heavy rains in the area. The B Company Detachment also collected numerous items of clothing for the QC dependent families.

20 September CPT Robert C. Farmer is assigned as the new Deputy Provost Marshal, Can Tho Detachment, 22nd Provost Marshal Detachment, 720th MP Battalion.

Miscellaneous Photographs

G0631	SSG Murray at the main gate.
G0636	24 Dec - Christmas Eve Party in the "Bamboo Room."
G0944	Unidentified MPs outside detachment compound in Can Tho.
G0945	SP/4 Lynn S. or Eddie White ?
G1715	SP/4 Pat Dwyer working the main gate.

1971

A major offensive against drug abuse, distribution, and related black market activities

The Can Tho Detachment duties in 1971 remained the same as those performed at the end of 1970. When detachment manpower permitted the MPs would also pull duty on the ferries that provided transportation access for Highway QL-4 across the Bassac River.

A Day In Can Tho PFC Robert J. Baldwin, 22nd Provost Marshal Office, Can Tho Detachment, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, December 1970 to January 1972.

The was also a brief period of time when a Navy Petty Officer was assigned to the Detachment as an SP (Shore Patrol). He was stationed at the Navy Base at Binh Thuy. He was on the Detachment duty roster but came and went more as the Navy saw fit and was assigned to work the Bien Xi Moi bar district on joint foot patrol with the MPs.

The Bassic River Ferry Assignment SP/4 George F. Long, II, B Company, 22nd Provost Marshal Office, Can Tho Detachment, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, August 1970 to August 1971.

Crime and complaints were very varied, especially in the Ben Xe Moi Street red light district. The street was lined with bars and other commercial outlets, some licensed, some not. Allied and Vietnamese troops as well as civilians had access to a variety of vices. There was no shortage of alcohol, gambling, prostitution, and drugs.

Prostitution Control PFC Robert J. Baldwin, 22nd Provost Marshal Office, Can Tho Detachment, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, December 1970 to January 1972.

Gambling Operations SP/4 George F. Long, II, B Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, Can Tho Detachment, August 1970 to August 1971.

Bar Patrol SP/4 Richard J. Bosmans, B & C Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, April 1971 to January 1972.

< Interpreter nicknamed "Snow"? He worked for the B Company, 720th MP Battalion, Detachment MP’s at Can Tho in 1971. "He was a really nice guy and trustworthy. Always laughing.

He would shout at the civilians or ARVN’s and they would always start doing what we wanted, even though we never had to tell him what we wanted, he would know." Courtesy of SP/4 Richard J. Bosmans, B & C Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, April 1971 to January 1972.

POW Assignment At 3rd Surgical Hospital SP/4 George F. Long, II, B Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, Can Tho Detachment, August 1970 to August 1971.

The Language Barrier SP/4 Richard J. Bosmans, B & C Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, April 1971 to January 1972.

11 April SP/4 Thaddeus Dennis, age 22 from Washington, DC volunteered on his off duty time to assist the midnight shift in transporting a relief guard from the Can Tho Army Air Field Security Unit, who was on MP OJT, to the 3rd Surgical hospital at Binh Thuy air base to guard a wounded POW. While in route to the hospital the jeep ran off the roadway and overturned. SP/4 Dennis died from his injuries while being transported to the hospital, the relief guard, who was the driver of the jeep was also injured, he eventually recovered.

31 May MAJ Crispus C. Nix ended his tour as Provost Marshal of IV Corps Tactical Zone, and was replaced by MAJ Jerry E. Jackson.

19 June The Provost Marshals Office (PMO), at Tan An was closed and the personnel and vehicle assets were deployed to the Can Tho Detachment to augment the current strength in preparation for an upcoming campaign against narcotics and marijuana. The operational area of the 716th MP Battalion was expanded to compensate for the loss of the Tan An PMO.

22 June In Preparation for the campaign, the Can Tho Provost Marshal Office strength was augmented by 30 personnel with an overall strength of two officers and eighty enlisted men. The primary mission of the military policemen were to increase discipline, law and order efforts, to act as a reaction force and to conduct combined police raids on Vietnamese establishments as required.

The military police strength was augmented by seventeen Vietnamese National Policemen, and ten National Policewomen (Canh Sat's), at the entrances to U.S. installations. Combined police patrols were also strengthened and increased, with twenty-one in Can Tho, four in Vinh Long, six in My Tho, two in Long Xuyen and two in Soc Trang.

The Anti Drug Campaign SP/4 George F. Long, II, B Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, August 1970 to August 1971.

During the operation a total of fourteen combined police raids were conducted within Vietnamese establishments during which the following confiscations and apprehensions of offenders were effected.

July Members of the Vietnamese National Police (Canh Sat's) conducted a public burning of a truck load of seized marijuana in Can Tho. Barricade's were erected and the marijuana stacked and burned under closed control of the Canh Sat's why the passing public watched.

Another drug seizure was made at the Can Tho Army Airfield the same month. Quantities of marijuana, heroin and illegally prescribed drugs, along with assorted drug use paraphernalia was seized.

Also during the month a surprise shutdown of all bases was conducted by the Provost Marshals Office trapping many U.S. Military personnel who were unauthorized to be off post, in the city. The detachment MPs busied themselves in patrolling the city, rounding up the violators and making numerous drug law violation apprehensions. It was also during this time span that a major CID undercover drug investigation was terminated that resulted in additional drug law apprehensions and seizures.

4 July The Battalion was required to position one MP at the entrance and exit to the post exchange facilities at Can Tho to insure that only authorized personnel used the exchange and that customers did not abuse their rations privileges.

29 July The small Battalion detachment at Soc Trang was closed and the personnel and equipment were redeployed to the Can Tho Detachment in connection with the stand down activities within that area of IV Corps. Military Police discipline, law and order support to Soc Trang was provided on an on-call basis.

For a day, my desk was a V100 SSG (SFC Ret.) Arthur R. Tiber, 22nd PMO Detachment, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, December 1971 to December 1972.

Miscellaneous Photographs

G0640	SP/4 Michael F. Healy (?) at the main gate.
G0639	PFC Jerry "Buddha" Manley.
G0632	MPs ready for patrol duty.
G0952?	Unidentified MP and a jeep stuck in the mud.
G1106	Jeep with custom gun shield.
G1108	Mechanics and V100 B45.
G1112?	Unidentified mechanics painting a jeep at the Motor Pool.
G1590	Members of Can Tho Detachment including casualty SP/4 Thaddeus Dennis.
G1720	PFC David Martin on the Can Tho Ferry.
G1721	Bassic River Ferries.
G1722	SP/4 George Matchell
G1724	Unidentified MP working the detachment Main Gate.
G1725	SP/4 Doyle, SP/4 Long, PFC Baldwin and unidentified MP's heading for 5th SF Mess.
G1726	SP/4 Coppolo (22nd PMO) last day at the detachment.
G1727	PFC Baldwin (22nd PMO) and unidentified Quan Canh at road clearing site.
G1728	PFC Adkins at the PMO.
G1729	PFC Doyle (22nd PMO) on headquarters roof.
G1730	PFC Doyle (22nd PMO) on headquarters roof.
G2241	Combined Patrol Jeep.
G2367	PFC Rich Bosmans at Bunker #7.
G2368	PFC Jerry Davis at Bunker #7.

1972

B Company Headquarters returns to Long Binh Post

March With the move of B Company from Vinh Long in IV Corps Tactical Zone back to Long Binh Post in III Corps Tactical Zone, a five soldier detachment of MPs from B Company remained assigned to Military Assistance Command (MACV) Advisory Team #68 in Vinh Long. SGT Carl W. Singleton, Non Commissioned Officer In Charge, and LTC Dewitt Hudson, Provost Marshal of IV Corps Tactical Zone oversaw daily operations. This detachment, equipped with two V100 armored cars, continued the convoy escort duties. When required, their manpower was augmented by MPs from B Company Headquarters at Long Binh Post.

Miscellaneous Photographs

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