File:Mine explosion Operation End Sweep 9 March 1973.jpg

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Description	English: An American naval mine explodes in North Vietnams Haiphong Harbor during Operation End Sweep, photographed by the automatic mine locator camera aboard an American CH-53A Sea Stallion helicopter. It is believed to be the only explosion of a mine during End Sweep. The Mark 105 hydrofoil minesweeping sled the helicopter is towing is at right.
Date	9 March 1973
Source	Scanned from Melia, Tamara Moser, "Damn the Torpedoes": A Short History of U.S. Navy Mine Countermeasures, 1777-1991, Washington, D.C.: Naval Historical Center, 1991, ISBN 0-945274-07-6, p. 108. U.S. Navy photo [1] from the USS Ogden (LPD-5) 1973 cruise book available at Navysite.de
Author	United States Navy photograph

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