Mậu Thân Huế - 1968

LIFE Magazine Feb 16, 1968 

- Một ngày đặc biệt ở Huế 

- Quân địch cho phép tôi chụp hình họ

 
 

 

 LIFE Magazine Feb 16, 1968 (6) - For civilians between the guns, no place to hide

BE082134 - Huế, Nam VN 01/02/1968

Hue Feb 1968

Marines of Co.C, 1st Battalion, Fifth Regiment, are engaged in a fire fight
in the streets during Operation Hue City. 19 Feb '68

Defense position -- A Marine uses a tree for cover as he returns fire at a North Vietnamese
position during street fighting in Hue

Marines effectively use walls and buildings as cover during their advance against the enemy -

Street Shield - Marines use a M-48 tank as cover as they advance during street fighting in Hue,
Feb. 3,1968

03 Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam

Under Fire -- A Leatherneck moves out under intense enemy .50 caliber machine gun fire
during heavy street fighting taking place in the old Imperial Capital of Hue.

Marines leave church after successfully capturing it from North Vietnamese control

Hue, South Vietnam

Throughout the city, buildings are still ruined from Tet. Hue City

[1968] Hue damage after Viet Cong attack -

23 Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam

A US Marine carries a seriously wounded Vietnamese child from the ruins of a home in Hue.

24 Feb 68 - in the streets of Hue on the north side of the Perfumed River.

Hue damage after Viet Cong attack

Mother and son survey their remains of their homes in Cholon destroyed 
during the May 5 Communist offensive in the Saigon area

ARVN Forces and civilians aid a woman wounded in Hue during the
 communist Tet offensive in the imperial city

A U.S. Marine machine gunner fires on communists positions across the Perfume River
 in the imperial city of Hue

Civilians run to escape enemy fire during the 26-day battle for Hue Citadel

refugees fled from communist-controlled areas of the city....

1968 Refugees crossing the Perfume River at Truong Tien Bridge outside of Hue.

refugees fled from communist-controlled areas of the city

VA035396 Hue- Aftermath (June 1968) Bridge still down but much else rebuilt. MACV compond 
is in lower left corner, Citadel bastions on other side of Perfume River

va009586 Citadel Hue City Feb. '68

CBS Reporter Walter Cronkite in South Hue (Feb. 20, 1968)

Hue ca.1968

Victory At Hue

Victory At Hue

Victory At Hue

Victory At Hue

Hue Flagpole at old citadel

Bia chiến sĩ trận vong phía trước trường Quốc Học

Nhà ga Huế

Hue refugees

Hue refugees

Students arriving in Hue to help with the refugee work

 

An old woman and daughter evacuating Hue

Hue 1968 - Nguyen Van Winkle

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Hue 1969 - Dedication - The white obelisk, a memorial to the PSDF members of Thua Thien Province
 killed while defending their fellow villagers

Populace watches as officials arrange coffins in front of memorial obelisk.

 

 

 

Family and friends prepare the body of Mr. Le Ngoc Ky, 50,
a prominent citizen of Hue and leader of the influential Quoc Dan Dang political party. He left 10 children

1969 - Label on the shrouded remains of a Tet Offensive victim
describing teeth, color of hair, foot wear, and other possessions found with the body.

1971 Shrouded remains of Tet Offensive victims prepared for reburial.

Weeping Women -- Two grieving women walk through a school yard where remains of 250 victims found in a mass grave
near Hue were spread for identification

1971 Vietnamese women cleaning a grave

Women examining wire used to bind the hands of Tet Offensive victims.

Hue 'Death March' Victims Found at New Atrocity Site

Mass grave of Communists victims was uncovered in Khe Da Mai (Hue)

Hue - Volunteer Civil Defense workers unload some of the 136 bodies of VC
hostages recently found along the sandy beaches south of Hue.

Mass grave of Communists victims was uncovered in Khe Da Mai (Hue)

Hue -- The people of Hue
held a mass funeral recently for the 136 victims of the 1968 Tet offensive.

Mass grave of Communists victims was uncovered in Khe Da Mai (Hue)

Mass funeral for 136 victims of Communist Tet offensive (1968) in Hue.

Elderly couple standing under umbrella in cemetery.

 

Honors For German Victims of VC - Vietnamese Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Tang Kim Dong

Buddhist Rites in Tu Dam Pagoda also commemorated the dead. Both Buddhist and Catholic faiths are strong in Hue, and both lost thousands of members in the massacre