~ 720th Military Police Battalion Reunion Association Vietnam History Project ~

Photo G2308a: Gasoline Alley #1on Highway 1A (#316), Gia Dinh Provence, III Corps Tactical Zone, Vietnam in 1967. On 12 May 1967 two 615th MP Company, 720th MP Battalion night highway Road Runner patrol gun jeeps entered the dirt roadway (marked by the red arrow) and were ambushed by a Viet Cong element resulting in the death of PFC William L. "Billy" Sanders, and the wounding of SP/4 L.D. Humbarger and PFCs Harold A. Newcomb and William M. Halt. Courtesy of PFC Steven C. Jones, 615th MP Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, February 1967 to March 1968.

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