Live 81 mm round
White object in the center-right of the photo is a live 81 mm illumination round that went through Oakes' poncho and landed between his head and the Gunnery Sgt's head during a night firing in a rain storm.
Vietnam War
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives
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Oakes, Ronald, “Live 81 mm round,” Digital Collections, accessed December 22, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/22500.