~ 720th Military Police Battalion Vietnam History Project ~

Photo G2507: A shipment of recovered C-Rations stolen during an Operation OVERTAKE transport from the Newport Docks and recovered from a building on Highway 1A (#316), near the water plant (background right) north of the Thu Duc intersection in Gia Dinh Province of III Corps Tactical Zone, Vietnam, sometime in May-June of 1968. MPs from A Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade were involved in the recovery and provided security while the cargo was reloaded onto the stolen contractors truck. They summoned this new Vietnamese contracted driver to transport the load to Long Binh Post. Courtesy of SGT Philip J. Beaver, A Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, August 1967-August 1968.

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