Crewmen Extinguish Burning Air Force C-130 Transport, 24 May 1968

“Transport Crashes: Crash crewmen of Marine Aircraft Group 39 [MAG-39], Quang Tri base, brave intense heat, fire, and exploding small arms ammunition to extinguish a burning Air Force C-130 transport. All passengers and air crewmen on board were rescued immediately when the aircraft crashed at the Marine Corps’ northernmost air base in South Vietnam (official USMC photo by Sergeant T. E. Kingry).”
From the Jonathan Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections.