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The Huế massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát tại Huế Tết Mậu Thân, or Thảm sát Tết Mậu Thân ở Huế, lit. translation: "Tết Offensive massacre in Huế") was the summary executions and mass murder perpetrated by the Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during their capture, military occupation and later withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive ...
- February 28, 1968; 55 years ago
- Massacre
- 2,800–6,000
Hue, Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam. The Huế massacre was the summary executions and mass murder perpetrated by the Viet Cong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) during their capture, military occupation and later withdrawal from the city of Huế during the Tet Offensive, considered one of the longest and bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
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The capital of the Thua Thien Hue Province and a revered symbol of Vietnam’s past, Hue was treated almost as a free city by both the South Vietnamese government and the Communist Viet Cong guerillas. Other than an occasional mortar shell or a rocket lobbed into the city by Viet Cong, Hue was largely spared the ravages of war.
21-23 Feb:21 Feb – 3 Bns of 1st Cavalry Division sever enemy communications and resupply lines. 22 Feb (0300) – Co A, 1/5 launches successful night attack paving the way. 23 Feb (0930) – 1/5 pushes forward, and enemy resistance melted. Marines capture the southern wall of the Citadel. 24-25 Feb:24 Feb (0500) – South Vietnamese national ...
May 23, 2019 · Ho Chi Minh Trail, and beyond was the border with Laos. Hue was the provincial capital of Thua Thien Province and was the third largest city Vietnam in 1968 with a population of 140,000. The city was the intellectual and religious center of Vietnam as well as being the former imperial capital.
Jan 25, 2011 · The action unfolding at Hue on the morning of January 31 was just part of a ferocious coordinated attack that was stunning in its scope and execution. An estimated 80,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops simultaneously struck three-quarters of South Vietnam’s provincial capitals and most of its major cities.
As late as 1967, Hue remained an open city, unscathed by the various wars that since World War II had raged up and down the Indochinese peninsula. But when Communist leaders in North Vietnam felt compelled to alter their strategy and launch a massive offensive in South Vietnam in early 1968, the Battle of Hue City suddenly placed the city into ...
