This set is drawn from one of the defining photographs of the Vietnam War. During the battle for Hue in 1968, U.S. Army photographer John Olson photographed wounded Marines being evacuated on the back of an M48 tank — there were never enough helicopters or ambulances for the casualties the city fighting produced, so the tanks carried the wounded out. One frame, of a gravely hurt Marine laid across the hull, ran in LIFE and became an emblem of the war's human cost. Behind such moments stood the Navy corpsmen and the Marines themselves, bound by a hard promise: no one is left behind.

K&C sculpts the two figures with restraint and care: the wounded Marine on the ground, chest bandaged and leg bloodied, cradled by a comrade whose face holds nothing but concern, his rifle and gear laid aside. Olson's original showed such men atop an M48, so the set can sit on the ground or ride a K&C Vietnam vehicle in a larger diorama. It belongs with the other figures of the war's cost — the wounded Marine and the covering fire that tried to reach him. The story of Olson and the other cameramen who recorded these moments is told in our feature on the photographers of the K&C Vietnam series.

King & Country model VN179. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Two-figure set — a wounded Marine and the comrade tending him — displayable on the ground or on a K&C Vietnam vehicle. Boxed.