Over the next month, they were gradually driven out during intense house-to-house fighting led by the Marines and ARVN. In the end, the Allies declared a military victory. The city of Huế was virtually destroyed, and more than 5,000 civilians were killed, including more than 2,000 of them executed by the PAVN and VC.

Apr 10, 2018 · The Battle of Hue City occurred with the Tet Offensive, where Marines were surprised by a North Vietnamese Army (NVA) attack during what was supposed to be a cease fire negotiated during a...

Closing Out Operation Hue City—A Summing Up The Struggle in the Western Citadel While the American Marine battalion fought for the Dong Ba tower and painfully inched its way for -

Feb 23, 2025 · As a captain in charge of a Marine rifle company in early 1968, Myron Harrington earned a Silver Star and, a week later, a Navy Cross for bravery and leadership under fire in the city of Huế,...

Jan 25, 2011 · On March 2, the longest sustained infantry battle the war had seen to that point was officially declared over. The relief of Hue cost the ARVN 384 killed, 1,800 wounded and 30 missing in action. The U.S. Marines suffered 147 dead and 857 wounded, and the Army lost 74 dead and 507 wounded.

May 25, 2018 · The Battle of Hue has come to be regarded as one of the most infamous urban battles in Marine Corps history. The battle started during the communists’ Tet Offensive, when Marines were surprised by a North Vietnamese Army attack during what was supposed to be a cease-fire negotiated for a Vietnamese holiday.

Feb 22, 2025 · The Battle of Hue City was the longest battle of the war in Vietnam and among the bloodiest. 142 Marines were killed in action over the 32 day battle. Around 3AM January 31st of '68 NVA...

After initially losing control of most of Hue, and its surroundings, the combined South Vietnamese and American forces, led by the 1st and 5th Marines, gradually recaptured the city over one month of intense street-by-street fighting. The battle was one of …

On 31 January 1968, during the Chi- nese lunar New Year, elements of the North Vietnamese Army (N VA) and Vietcong (VC) infiltrated the old im- perial city of Hue virtually undetected as part of GEN Vo Nguyen Giap's Tet Offensive strategy.

On Jan. 30, 1968, Hue became the site of one of the longest, bloodiest battles the Americans would fight against the North Vietnamese Army, or NVA, and its Viet Cong guerrillas living in...