File:Clayton Hendricks Fires the 25,000th Round, 1968 (29230926362).jpg

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"25,000 Round: Lieutenant Colonel Clayton V. Hendricks (Virginia Beach, Virginia), a commanding officer of the 11th Marines, 1st Marine Division, pulls the lanyard to fire the 25,000 round by the 175mm guns of B Battery, 8th Battalion, 4th Artillery, US Army. The battery has been in country an attached to the 11th Marines since August 1967. B Battery is credited with more than 450 confirmed kills (official USMC photo by Private First Class W. L. Cummings)."

From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611) at the Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division

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Date Taken in 1968
Source Clayton Hendricks Fires the 25,000th Round, 1968
Author USMC Archives from Quantico, USA

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