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Apr 10, 2018 · Vietnam War veterans and retired Marines Lt. Gen. George “Ron” Christmas and Brig. Gen. Michael Downs, who were then captains serving as commanding officers in Hue, recently spoke about their experiences in the Battle of Hue City to an eager group of staff-noncommissioned officers (SNCOs) during a Professional Military Education (PME) event ...
Jan 31, 2019 · 5 Medal Of Honor Recipients Who Helped Turn The Tide Of Vietnam’s Brutal Battle Of Hue City. The Tet Offensive began on January 30 as the North Vietnamese occupied the city of Hue. U.S. Marines ...
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- The Tet Offensive Begins
- The Battle of Hue City: How The Siege Began
- Street by Street, and House by House
- The NVA Counterattack
- Tactical Victory, Strategic Failure
In the fall of 1967, Giap launched a series of big battles near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that had two objectives: draw American forces north, away from the heavily populated coastal and lowland cities, and determine if the Americans would respond with an invasion of the north. A massive buildup of Communist troops and equipment in the south beg...
A wave of premature attacks—possibly launched because North Vietnam’s calendar differed from South Vietnam’s—began shortly after midnight on January 30-31. All five provincial capitals in II Corps and the city of Da Nang in I Corps were attacked. The Vietcong assaults began with mortar and rocket attacks, followed by massed ground assaults by batta...
The Marines launched their advance toward the treasury building, but made slow progress. Each time they tried to advance, they were hit with a withering array of mortar, rocket, machine-gun, and small-arms fire from prepared positions in the buildings to their front. The Marines simply did not have enough men to deal with the entrenched enemy. By t...
On the night of February 6-7, NVA troops counterattacked and forced the ARVN troops to pull back to the airfield. At the same time, the NVA rushed additional reinforcements into the city. Truong responded by redeploying his units, ordering the 3rd ARVN Regiment to move into the Citadel and take up positions around division headquarters. By the even...
On March 2, the battle for Hue, the longest sustained infantry battle of the war to that point, was officially declared over. Losses were high. In 26 days of fighting, the ARVN lost 384 men killed, more than 1,800 wounded, and 30 missing. The U.S. Marines suffered 147 dead and 857 wounded, while U.S. Army units lost 74 dead and 507 wounded. The all...
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The 106mm self-propelled Ontos (M50A1) proved effective in urban combat for the U.S. Marines in the fight for Hue City, Vietnam, during the 1968 Tet Offensive. In the village of Thon La Chu, three miles west of Hue, the Hue City Front established its headquarters in a three-story underground bunker.
- Hue was untouched by the war until 1968. After the French withdrew from Indochina, and the country was divided into a "democratic" south and a communist north, the city of Hue fell south of the demilitarized zone.
- The North Vietnamese weren't just a ragtag bunch of farmers. Although the Viet Cong -- also known as the VC, they were South Vietnamese who actively supported the communist north -- had their share of peasant soldiers, North Vietnam's armed forces were much more sophisticated than popular perception allows.
- The Battle of Hue was part of the Tet Offensive. On Jan. 30-31, 1968, North Vietnam launched a massive, coordinated assault on nearly every city, town and military installation in South Vietnam.
- The United States knew an offensive was coming. North Vietnam massed 80,000 troops and the supplies needed to launch the Tet Offensive in the days before Jan.
Feb 24, 2004 · MAYPORT, Fla., February 24, 2004 -- USS Hue City hosted more than 50 Vietnam Veterans and their families Feb. 1 for the 12th annual Battle of Hué City Memorial Service.
Mar 7, 2018 · Molly Hamilton Mar 07, 2018. On Thursday, March 1, a full-to-capacity Smokey Stover Theater onboard the USS Yorktown listened intently as five veterans of the Vietnam War discussed the pivotal 26-day battle for Huế City as part of the latest symposium at Patriots Point – “Taking the Fight to the Streets: The Battle for Huế City.”.
