The most recognizable is a Pulitzer Prize winning photo, taken on Hill 400, showing a wounded Gunnery Sergeant Jeremiah Purdie being guided by a Hospital Corpsman Darrell Hinde as he reaches out to Sergeant Larry Mitchel whom was also seriously wounded waiting to be medevaced.
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Other operations the Battalion participate in 1968 were Operation Lancaster II, Operation Scrotum and Operation Robin South along Route 9 and near Khe Sanh.
Sent to Vietnam, Ballard served as a corpsman in the Quang Tri province with Company M, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines (Mike 3/4) of the 3rd Marine Division.
He was transferred to the Republic of Vietnam and was assigned to Battery I, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines as a forward observer for 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines.
Royal Marines | Battalion | 3rd Rock from the Sun | Marines | South Carolina's 3rd congressional district | battalion | Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury | 4th United States Congress | Michigan's 3rd congressional district | Captain (British Army and Royal Marines) | 4th | Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron | 3rd United States Congress | Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba | 3rd arrondissement of Marseille | John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich | California's 4th State Assembly district | 1st Battalion 8th Marines | Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk | Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston | Charles Lennox, 4th Duke of Richmond | Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore | 1st Battalion 9th Marines | Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl | Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex | Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York | John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute | George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen | Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey | Alabama's 3rd congressional district |