~ 720th Military Police Battalion Vietnam History Project ~

Photo G2108: SGT Hoang (left) of the South Vietnamese Army Popular Forces and SP/4 Allan Portnoy, B Company, 720th MP Battalion detachment members with a group of children outside a local village Buddhist temple during Operation MANHATTAN, in the Dau Tieng Michelin Rubber Plantation area of Vietnam on 3 May 1967. The temple walls (background) had some Viet Cong propaganda written on them so SP/4 Portnoy enlisted the aid of the village chief to have some of the villagers clean it off. Courtesy of SP/4 Alan M. Portnoy, B Company & 615th MP Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, October 1966 to October 1967.

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