Lieutenant Colonel Hughes gives candies to children in Plei-Mrong village in Vietnam.

Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes commander of United States 52nd Aviation Company in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Vietnamese children at a Montagnard village of Plei-Mrong. Young girls with babies tied to their backs. A Vietnamese man in a cloak seated on the ground as he smokes a long pipe. Lieutenant Colonel John C. Hughes gives candies to children. A woman grins as she looks at him. An old Vietnamese man holding gifts.