Gen Leonard F Chapman, Commandant of the Marine Corps, speaks with Marine Sergeant S. Blementhal, a platoon sergeant with Combined Action Plat on 2-1-6, based in the village of Throng Thon in Vietnam. The encounter took place on August 6, 1968, as captured in this 35mm negative photograph.

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