page_title: Operation Taylor Common
section_title: Operation
hierarchical_section_title: Operation Taylor Common / Operation
caption_attribution_description: "Wet Cache: Leathernecks of the 5th Marines near An Hoa inspect a cache of enemy ammunition and documents they found on a river crossing during Operation Taylor Common. The rain-swollen river washed away the protective covering of the cache and sharp-eyed Marines spotted the ammunition (official USMC photo by Private W. L. Cummings)." From the Jonathan Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives &amp; Special Collections. OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
context_page_description: Operation Taylor Common was a search and destroy operation conducted by Task Force Yankee, a task force of the 1st Marine Division supported by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, southwest of Hội An from 6 December 1968 to 8 March 1969.
caption: Marines inspect a PAVN ammunition cache
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