Soldier Digging Foxhole
April 18, 1972 - Lai Khe, More Attacks Expected. Lai Khe, South Vietnam: Member of ARVN force defending potential invasion route (Highway 13) to Saigon, pauses in his foxhole digging as medics rush wounded comrade to the rear (background), here recently. They're members of a battalion of troops battling Communist forces just three miles north of this South Vietnamese base, only 30 miles from Saigon. Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Minh, commander of the defending forces here, said, April 18, that he expects more North Vietnamese attacks later, April 18, in the vicinity of the embattled provincial capital of An Loc.