A film report depicts the role of U.S. Navy chaplains during the war in Vietnam. Navy Chaplain, Lieutenant Vincent R. Capodanno, USNR(ChC) is seen sitting on the sand with several U.S. Marines. He smokes a cigarette and talks with one of them about a member of their unit who was severely wounded by a grenade during an enemy ambush. Elsewhere, Chaplain Capodanno is seen talking with other Marines about the war and about their homes and loved ones. He approaches a marine seated on sand bags, who shares news from his personal letter. U.S. Marines in combat gear are seen on a patrol in a Vietnamese village. The chaplain talks to a marine about the operation and his particular assignment. The marine answers his question. A close up of chaplain Capodanno.
View through gun camera target during the Vietnam War. USAF Republic F-105 Thunderchief in flight over a target area. Red target display center of frame as the aircraft targets the ground for firing. Smoke rises from explosions.
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) soldiers stand near an armored locomotive at a railroad yard in Saigon, Vietnam. The ARVN soldiers board the train. An American advisor climbs aboard. View from the top of the locomotive as it leaves the Saigon railroad yard and passes through the city and wooded areas. (Vietnam War period).
Incoming U.S. Vietnam Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and outgoing U.S. Vietnam Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge shake hands with each other in Saigon, Vietnam. Reporters ask questions. Henry Cabot Lodge and his wife board plane and wave.
U.S. and Republic of Vietnam soldiers (ARVN) walk around and peruse a vast display of captured Viet Cong (VC) weapons, displayed on an airfield ramp, in South Vietnam, during the Vietnam War. The display comprises numerous small arms and mortars, all of which are stacked against or on tables, and on the ramp itself. A pair of UH-1 Huey helicopters take off in background. ARVN soldiers walk from UH-1s that are hovering in the background. Scene shifts toward vehicles gathered on a sandy area nearby. Camera shows several suspected VC being interrogated by a Vietnamese Air Force officer, and an American officer. Several ARVN in steel helmets stand with them. (Note: Silent except for brief comment by someone about VC suspects being interrogated.)
199th Light Infantry BDE during search and destroy operation in Vietnam. Soldiers stand and rest by a hut. Soldiers hold log and cross makeshift log bridge. Smoke raises from burning haystack, civilians stand past field and soldiers cross by haystack. Vietnam civilian stands and women and a child sit besides road. Soldiers walk by them. Soldiers cross waist deep water of river. They walk in deep mud of the riverbank. Soldier holds another soldier's arm to pull him out of mud. (Vietnam War period).
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