United States Marines in battle against Vietcong in Hue during Tet Offensive. Bursts over water. Shrapnel hits water. Several marines sit near brick wall. Marine aims Winchester M-70 30 cal rifle. Many marines run along street toward Viet houses. Marines kneel behind a trailer, and fire M-16 rifles. Marines stand, some marines kneel behind brick wall and look out. Marine talks to his friend and gestures with hands. Marines behind tree point out with hands. They run away from tree. Marines take cover behind a truck. Marine talks into radio. Marines with cover aid another marine to run across dirt road. (Vietnam War period).
View from atop a tall building, of Saigon, Vietnam, during the Tet Offensive by North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces. U.S. ambulances race down a street. A helicopter flies overhead. Camera pans over tops of buildings. U.S. Army UH-1C Huey Gunships (helicopters) from the 191st Assault Helicopter Company, attached to the 9th Infantry Division, fly back and forth over buildings. Scene shifts to an aerial view of the city from open door of a UH-1C Huey Gunship. Smoke rises from an area that the chopper approaches. View of the Huey's gun firing from an open door. view from inside cockpit of the gun ship. Three pairs of rockets are fired from the chopper into the area of smoke. A fighter jet aircraft flies overhead toward the area. Heavy smoke rises. A chopper flies high above as sun sets on horizon. View of rooftops in twilight, with smoke still rising in background and a UH-1C Huey Gunship flying very low over rooftops toward the smoke. Explosion and flame seen in center of the smoking area, followed by a heavy explosion. a fighter jet overhead and another explosion from the combat area.
Tet Offensive underway in Saigon, during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army UH-1B helicopters in flight over buildings. Vietnamse civilians on the terrace or rooftop of a building. Massive clouds of smoke rise from fires and bombed areas in distance. Explosions seen.
U.S. Army 199th Light Infantry Brigade soldiers following a ceremony honoring their Chaplain, Captain Angelo Liteky, who received the DSC. A Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) on the Chaplain's uniform. M-113 Armored Personnel Carriers (APCs) lined up. The Chaplain talks to the members of the press. (Vietnam War period).
Chaplain Angelo Liteky conducts mass for soldiers of the 199th Light Infantry, using a small printed guide, which the attending soldiers also use to follow and participate in the mass. (Vietnam War period).
Film opens showing a damaged U.S. M48 tank stranded in a ditch at side of road near buildings in Hue, Vietnam. Closeup of the front and tread of the damaged tank. M-48 tanks parked under trees near sandbagged garden fence. U.S. Marine in combat gear silhouetted against window as he fires rifle from inside a building. Several U.S. Army soldiers, of the 1st battalion 44th artillery, load shells into an M42A1 twin 40mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun ("Duster"). Marines on the roof of a building. They prepare to fire a 3.5inch rocket launcher. A rocket is loaded into a tube and the 3.5inch rocket launcher is fired. A marine ties the 3.5inch rocket launcher onto a rope and stands holding it.