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Photo G1719: Gambling operations in Can Tho were legal, regulated by the Vietnamese Government and enforced by the National Police (Can Sat). In this photograph members of the Can Tho Can Sat’s and Vietnamese Military Police (Quan Canh) are shutting down an illegal gambling operation in the Ben Xe Moi Street red light sector of Can Tho City in Phong Dinh Province, Mekong Delta Region of Military Region III, Vietnam in 1971. The Can Tho detachment of B Company, 720th MP Battalion would only become involved in the incident if U.S. troops were found patronizing the facility. Courtesy of PFC Robert J. Baldwin, 22nd Provost Marshal Detachment Can Tho, 720th MP Battalion, December 1970-January 1972.