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Keystone Battle Brief The Battle of Hue City 31 January-25 February 1968 Notes were created from Richard Camp's (Col. Ret.) Death in the Citadel: U.S. Marines in the Battle for Hue City, 31 January to 2 March 1968 (2017). Robert P. Hanger MA Candidate, Liberty University (Dept of History)

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The bloody, monthlong battle for the Citadel in Hue pitted U.S. Marines against an entrenched, numerically superior North Vietnamese army force. By official U.S. accounts it was a tactical and moral victory for the Marines and the United States. But a survivor's compulsion to square official accounts with his contrasting experience has produced.

The Meridian Gate Hue Citadel during the Tet offensive, Vietnam War PHOTO BY EDDIE ADAMS/AP

January 2018 A new dragon statue guards the Citadel in Hue, seized by northern forces during the 1968 Tet Offensive but then recaptured in some of the fiercest combat of the Vietnam War. Binh.

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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.

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Two North Vietnamese regulars cross a river carrying their weapons on their back during the assault on Hue. The 1st ARVN (Army of the Republic of Vietnam) Division, commanded by Brig. Gen. Ngo Quang Truong, was headquartered in the fortified Mang Ca compound in the northeast corner of the Citadel.

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The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Hue - Warfare History Network The Tet Offensive and the Battle of Hue PAVN and Viet Cong takeover of the Imperial City of Hue during the Tet Offensive marked a turning point in the Vietnam War. This article appears in: Fall 2023 By Victor Kamenir

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The 1968 Tet Offensive Battles of Quang Tri City and Hue In early 1968, General William C. Westmoreland saw signs of hope and progress in a stubborn war that was approaching its third year of combat.

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Uncategorized Storming the Citadel by Al Hemingway 7/26/2018 Fighting house to house, the Marine battle to regain Hue's south side and recapture the historic Imperial City was a bloody affair. It was a chilly morning and the skies were a lead gray as the convoy slowly snaked its way along Highway 1.

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The Battle of Hue kicked off in the early morning hours on January 31, 1968. The battle, in a historic city near South Vietnam's border with North Vietnam, was a major part of the larger Tet.

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The streets of Hue—in both the Citadel and the south side—were to become a bloody battlefield for three undermanned battalions of U.S. Marines. From a strategic level, Hue was important because it was a distribution point for resupply efforts. A railroad and major highway passed through the city, connecting the Marine Corps command at Da.

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From the afternoon of February 1 to the afternoon of February 4, the ARVN 7th Airborne Battalion lost another 16 killed and 74 wounded while it managed to push back the communist forces from approximately 4,500 feet of Citadel real estate. Together with other ARVN forces, the battalion helped recapture the Tay Loc airfield.

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The Taking of the Citadel and Aftermath The Struggle in the Western Citadel—An Estimate of the Situation and Mounting the Offensive— Closing Out Operation Hue City—A Summing Up

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A unit of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, rests alongside a battered wall of Hue's imperial palace after a battle for the citadel in February 1968, during the Tet Offensive.

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BLUF: The Battle of Huế, 31 January 1968 to 2 March 1968, was a significant military engagement during the Tết Offensive launched by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.

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The Battle of Hue became one of intense, intermittent fighting. Here a Marine takes advantage of a lull to shave using a broken mirror and a bowl he found in a nearby house.

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The U.S. Army's histories of the battle estimates that more than 3,000 civilians were killed or executed by PAVN and Viet Cong forces over the course of the 25-day battle. The city's residents did not rise up against the South Vietnamese government, and most took shelter and hid from the PAVN and Viet Cong soldiers.