Photo G0934-1: SP/4 George L. Lahargoue of A Company, 720th MP Battalion displays his sign of defiance to his brush with death experience while sitting on his patrol jeep at the company Motor Pool on Long Binh Post in early April 1969. While proceeding alone to his Operation OVERTAKE Day convoy static checkpoint assignment in the morning on Highway-1A in Bien Hoa Province, Military Region III, Vietnam, his jeep was T-boned and run over by a former U.S. military 5-ton truck owned by a Vietnamese civilian contractor. The crash severely damaged the jeep and sent SP/4 Lahargoue to the hospital with back injuries.

Photo G0934-3: SP/4 Lahargoue’s M-14 rifle barrel was bent into an L shape, and was cut off by the company armorer. Courtesy of SP/4 George L. Lahargoue of A Company, 720th MP Battalion, 89th MP Group, 18th MP Brigade, 2 December 1968-22 January 1970.