Activities of the United States Army 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 4th Infantry Division soldiers during Operation Francis Marion in the Central Highlands in Pleiku area, South Vietnam. Soldiers walk in jungle to a water point during the Vietnam War. They fill canteens at a stream. A soldier on guard. Soldiers walk through the dense foliage on return to camp with canteens.
U.S. Army Chaplain Liteky on a field at the Fire Base Stephanie in Bien Hoa province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. U.S. Army 199th Light Infantry Brigade soldiers assemble for a presentation ceremony for U.S. Army Chaplain Captain Angelo Liteky. The soldiers aboard tanks on a field. U.S. Army General Crieghton W. Abrams and party arrive. A citation is read. General Abrams presents the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) to Chaplain Liteky. A soldier takes photographs. The flag of the United States flutters from a flag pole. The chaplain is interviewed by the press. Cameramen record the event.
A U.S. Army Chaplain on a field at the Fire Base Stephanie in Bien Hoa province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Chaplain Angelo Liteky walks across rice paddies with soldiers of the 199th Light Infantry. He enters a camp area. Pup tents are scattered in the area. A soldier and the Chaplain look at captured Vietcong equipment.
American soldiers of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade assembling for a memorial service at Fire Base Stephanie in Bien Hoa province, South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The soldiers line up in formation, after placing their helmets on the ground beside them. Chaplain Captain Angelo Liteky conducts a memorial ceremony on the field. Soldiers listen to him and pray together the Lord's Prayer. An honor guard moves into position and fires a three gun salute. The Chaplain and the soldiers salute.
Soldiers of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade seated on the field at Fire Base Stephanie in Bien Hoa province, South Vietnam. U.S. Army Chaplain Captain Angelo Liteky is concluding the Eucharist (Communion) using a cardboard box for an altar. He finishes the ceremony, drinks the wine from the chalice and covers it. Scene shifts to the Chaplain dispensing communion wafers to Army soldier communicants. Another view of Chaplain Liteky completing Communion service at makeshift altar. He then reads from an altar card, crosses himself, and blesses the gathering of Army soldiers, several of whom then return pamphlets they used to follow and participate in the Mass. (Vietnam War period).
Activities of Mobile Riverine Force of U.S. 9th Infantry Division in Dong Tam, Mekong Delta in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Interior of the USS Colleton. Soldiers receive inoculations. A soldier has an X-ray taken.