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LIFE Feb 16, 1968 - Một ngày đặc biệt ở Huế - Quân địch cho phép tôi chụp hình họ
A remarkable day in Huế - The enemy let me take his picture. by Catherine Leroy - LIFE Feb 16, 1968
A tense interlude in Huế. LIFE Feb 16, 1968
LIFE Feb 16, 1968
LIFE Feb 16, 1968
Quân Bắc Việt tiến vào thành nội Huế tết Mậu Thân 1968
Huế 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.
US
sharpshooters in Hue, South Vietnam monitor the streets below their
tower for Vietcong targets. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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. Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons Collection
After
the Battle -- "A" Co., First Battalion, First Regiment Marines leave
church after successfully capturing it from North Vietnamese control
during one of the bloody battles taking place in Hue. - Brigadier
General Edwin H. Simmons Collection
U.S.
Marines with machine guns ready, watch for enemy snipers on a street in
Hue on February 7th. Allied dive bombers and U.S. warships bombarded a
Communist suicide battalion in Hue's walled fortress on February 15th,
and American Marines and south Vietnam black panther troops charged into
the flaming ruins to wipe out the Viet Cong. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
Throughout the city, buildings are still ruined from Tet. Hue City - Tommy Carver Collection
1968 Hue damage after Viet Cong attack - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam. Marines smoke and chat as they relax at a
command post in Hue. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
A US Marine carries a seriously wounded Vietnamese child from the ruins of a home in Hue. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
24 Feb 68 - in the streets of Hue on the north side of the Perfumed River - Peter Braestrup Collection
Hue 1968 - Marine armored vehicle, armed with 6 recoilless guns, patrols streets of Hue
25 Feb 1968, Hue, Vietnam --- U.S. Army Patrol During Offensive on Hue --- Image by © Christian Simonpietri/Sygma/Corbis
February
1968, Hue, Vietnam --- Evacuation of wounded American troops during the
battle for Hue, Vietnam's third largest city, during the Vietnam War.
--- Image by © Christian Simonpietri/Sygma/Corbis
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- U. S. Marines are on the move here
during street-to-street fighting against heavily entrenched Communist
positions in the ancient royal capital of Hue. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
03
Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- A marine machine gun position
overlooks a part of the old imperial capital of Hue here, during a
house-to-house battle with Viet Cong. American spokesmen said the
Communist had lost more than 15,000 dead since they started their sneak
offensive. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
01 Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- Vietnamese Refugees Fleeing --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
01 Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- US Marines Standing on Hue Streets --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
February
1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- U.S. Marines charge through streets as
fighting continues between Allied and Communist forces. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
February
1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- U. S. Marine medics treat a wounded fellow
Marine whose face is almost completely covered with blood. --- Image by
© Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- 2/1/1968-Hue, South Vietnam: Civlians
carrying a white flag approach U.S. Marines, following a lull in street
fighting between Allied units and the Viet Cong. Many civilians were
driven from their homes in the bloody street fighting in this ancient
city. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
02
Mar 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- A Final Farewell. Hue, South Vietnam: A
bereaved South Vietnamese family watches as a grave is dug for a
relative here. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
03 Feb 1968, Hue --- Terrified Vietnamese Civilians in City of Hue 1968 --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
2/5/1968-Hue,
South Vietnam: A U.S. Marine ducks for cover while radioing information
during fierce fighting here. The Marines stormed in to enemy held
houses, throwing canisters of tear gas and non poisonous nausea gas, but
enemy forces donned gas masks and held onto most of the city. U.S.
officers reported that the stiff resistance by the enemy meant that the
battle for hue could drag on for days, perhaps even weeks. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- A US marine fights from a ditch in
Hue, South Vietnam as other marines drag a wounded colleague to safety.
--- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
06
Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- U.S. Marines hold a Viet Cong flag
they ripped down from atop the Thua Thien Province headquarters, and
then replaced it with the stars and stripes. The leathernecks recaptured
the Communist stronghold after seven days of street fighting. --- Image
by © Bettmann/CORBIS
2/10/1968-Hue,
South Vietnam- A sobbing Vietnamese girl hobbles down a Hue Street
after being treated for wounds she suffered when her home came under
fire in battle between well-entrenched communist forces and US Marines
trying to root them out. Them communists have shown their greatest
tenacity of the current offensive at Hue. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- With a wounded baby in her arms, an
elderly Vietnamese woman makes a plea for help as she arrives at a U.S.
Marine aid station. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
11 Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- South Vietnamese Woman Carrying Her Wounded Son --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- Residents of Hue, South Vietnam sift
through the rubble of their destroyed homes after a week of fighting in
the Vietnam War. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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Mar 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- Children Trip Viet Cong Mine. Hue,
South Vietnam: Two miles south of here March 9th, a group of Vietnamese
children accidentally tripped a Viet Cong mine meant to blow up vehicles
carrying 82nd Airborne troops into Hue. Here a member of the 82nd
stands near site of the blast while Vietnamese woman in foreground tries
to aid her husband injured by mine fragments. A number of the children
also were seriously injured in the explosion. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- U.S. Marines and South Vietnamese
troopers on street with refugees soon to be evacuated. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- U.S Marines eat a bowl of rice which
was served to them by a South Vietnamese woman. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- A U. S. Marine fires his M-16 over the
crest of the wall near the Citadel of Hue after fighting for hours to
gain the top. The battle for Hue has already run 18 days and the
Communist apparently intend to hold out to the last man. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- Hue, South Vietnam: The charred
remains of a Viet Cong soldier lie amid rubble in street where a U.S.
Marine stands on the alert for further confrontations with Communist
forces. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- U.S. Marine medics treat the head
wound of a North Vietnamese soldier who was found below an outer citadel
wall. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Hue damage after Viet Cong attack - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
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Feb 1968, South Vietnam --- A mother clutches her child as she makes
her way through the crowds of refugees, crossing the wreckage of a
bridge, on the Perfume River. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch
Collection/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- Two US marines lean against the wall
of a destroyed home in Hue, Vietnam near the bodies of two Vietcong
soldiers who were inside at the time of the attack. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
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Forces and civilians aid a woman wounded in Hue during the communist
Tet offensive in the imperial city - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
A
U.S. Marine machine gunner fires on communists positions across the
Perfume River in the imperial city of Hue - Douglas Pike Photograph
Collection
Thành cổ Huế đổ nát tan tành trong trận đánh tết Mậu Thân 1968
Cửa Hiển Nhơn trong trận chiến Tết Mậu Thân 1968
Civilians run to escape enemy fire during the 26-day battle for Hue Citadel - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Refugees fled from communist-controlled areas of the city... - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
1968 Refugees crossing the Perfume River at Truong Tien Bridge outside of Hue - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
refugees fled from communist-controlled areas of the city
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 - Peter Braestrup Collection
Citadel Hue City Feb. '68 - Barry Brown Collection
Walter
Cronkite and CBS Camera Crew use jeep for dolly, during interview with
Commanding Officer of First Battalion, First Marine Regiment during
battle of Hue City. Marines furnish CBS with camera dolly (jeep),
supporting cast (riflemen), and interviewee (battalion commander) -
Peter Braestrup Collection
Colonel
Lê Văn Thận, young and competent mayor of Hue and chief of Thừa Thiên
Province is the sparkplug behind the rehabilitation of Huế following the
communists' February 1968 attack. He is a native of Hà Đông, 20
kilometers from Hanoi. - photo by Francois Sully
Victory At Hue - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Victory
At Hue - 1968 Exuberant soldiers unfurl their national colors on the
south wall of the Citadel, overlooking the Perfume River - Douglas Pike
Photograph Collection
Vietnamese
soldiers celebrate their victory over the North Vietnamese invaders of
Hue with the raising of their national colors on the 200-foot flag pole -
Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Victory At Hue - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Hue Flagpole at old citadel
Bia chiến sĩ trận vong phía trước trường Quốc Học
The Old Imperial Palace of the Vietnamese Emperors at Hue City - Tommy Carver Collection
Nhà ga Huế
Hue Railroad Station - Curtis Knapp Collection
Hue refugees, people in front of building - Louis Weisner Collection
Hue refugees, people in front of building - Louis Weisner Collection
Students arriving in Hue to help with the refugee work. Mar. 1968 - Photo by Francois Sully
An old woman and daughter evacuating Hue, Mar. 1968 - Photo by Francois Sully
Hue 1968 - Nguyen Van Winkle
Ông
lão này tại một ngôi làng gần Huế há hốc miệng ngạc nhiên khi biết được
về cuộc tổng tấn công thành phố Huế trong tháng trước đó. Ngôi làng của
ông đã bị cắt đứt với thế giới vì các hoạt động của quân địch và không
nghe biết gì về những tin tức xảy ra trước đó.
Hue,
South Vietnam --- Refugees whose homes had been wrecked during the
bloody 25-day battle for this ancient imperial city start building a
crude shelter here.
Hue,
South Vietnam --- Residents, refugees and soldiers file through the
messy ruins of a street in Hue. The crowd came to inspect the damage
after South Vietnamese troops blasted their way through a gate of the
Imperial Palace to win the bloody 25-day battle for the ancient imperial
city. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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Mar 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- Bridging a River. Hue, South Vietnam:
When the Communists retreated across the Perfume River during the recent
battle for Hue, they blew up the bridge as they went. Once the city
calmed down after the Allies regained control, a set of temporary
bridges on pontoons was built across the downed middle section of the
span. Here, Vietnamese start their trip from the old section of Hue to
the new by walking down the shattered span. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
Hue Massacre Major Body Finds. MAP12090311 Vietnam Archive Map Collection - Vietnam Center and Archive
Hue
1969 - Dedication - The white obelisk, a memorial to the PSDF members
of Thua Thien Province killed while defending their fellow villagers -
Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Populace watches as officials arrange coffins in front of memorial obelisk. 14 October 1969 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Lễ cải táng các nạn nhân tết Mậu Thân 1968 tại Huế
Than khóc khi tìm được xác người thân bị tàn sát dịp Tết Mậu Thân 1968 tại Huế
People assembled on hillside to mourn Tet Offensive victims. 04 October 1969 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
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. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
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. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
1971 Shrouded remains of Tet Offensive victims prepared for reburial. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
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 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Rows
of coffins of victims of the 1968 Tet Viet Cong offensive. Bereaved
relatives mourn their dead during mass funeral of 250 persons killed by
Viet cong. Funeral was held October 1969 as bodies were only recently
discovered. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
Rows of coffins of victims of the 1968 Tet Viet Cong offensive.
Rows of coffins of victims of the 1968 Tet Viet Cong offensive.
1971 Vietnamese women cleaning a grave - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Women examining wire used to bind the hands of Tet Offensive victims. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Hue 'Death March' Victims Found at New Atrocity Site - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Mass grave of Communists victims was uncovered in Khe Da Mai (Hue) - Patrick J. Honey Collection - Vietnam Center and Archive
Hue
- Volunteer Civil Defense workers unload some of the 136 bodies of VC
hostages recently found along the sandy beaches south of Hue. - Douglas
Pike Photograph Collection
Mass grave of Communists victims was uncovered in Khe Da Mai (Hue) - Patrick J. Honey Collection
The
people of Hue held a mass funeral recently for the 136 victims of the
1968 Tet offensive. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Mass grave of Communists victims was uncovered in Khe Da Mai (Hue) - Patrick J. Honey Collection
Mass funeral for 136 victims of Communist Tet offensive (1968) in Hue. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Elderly couple standing under umbrella in cemetery. [14 October 1969] - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Hue - 1968
Bodies
exhumed after 3 weeks internment in shallow graves in the Gia Hoi
primary school in Hue lay covered with available material await proper
burial - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Wife,
family, and friends of Le Ngoc Ky, 50, a prominent citizen of Hue mourn
as he is prepared for proper burial after body was located in field of
shallow mass graves - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Lt.
Le Kim Ngoc (left) held paper lining of casket as his father who was
arrested and assassinated by VC forces in Hue is laid to rest in proper
burial - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Young woman holding photo of Vietnamese soldier. [14 October 1969] - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
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tình nguyện viên Y khoa người Đức gồm GS Alois Altekeestar, giáo sư y
học tổng quát; Horst Krainer, GS nhi khoa; cùng vợ, Elizabeth; và
Raimund Discar, GS nội khoa, đang cộng tác giảng dạy tại ĐH Huế đã bị
sát hại trong cuộc tấn công tết Mậu Thân. Thi thể của họ được tìm thấy
trong một hố chôn cạn cách phía nam Huế khoảng 1,5 km vào ngày 5/4/1968.
- Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
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 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
1971 Buddhist monks praying before an altar. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
1971 Vietnamese catholic woman in mourning - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
1971 Vietnamese woman in mourning. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
1971
Day of Mourning -- Third annual commemoration ceremonies for the 5,000
victims of the 1968 Hue Massacre began in Phu Cam Catholic Church -
Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Buddhist mourn Lives Lost at Hue During Communist Tet Offensive - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Banners
noting commemoration of the victims of the Tet Offensive in Hue on 20
February 1968 behind a memorial flanked by two traditionally uniformed
soldiers 20 Feb 1971. - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
Hue 1968 - Colonel Le Van Than, province chief in Hue - Photo by Francois Sully
Hue 1968 - Colonel Than with Army of the Republic of Vietnam officer; Hue - Photo by Francois Sully
Hue
1969 - Worked In Shifts - Province Chief, Colonel Le Van Than (right),
visited the sea-wall repair site frequently during the rally - Douglas
Pike Photograph Collection
Father Bửu Đồng's funeral
Hue 1968
Huế 1968 - Chiến tranh, nhưng việc vặt hàng ngày vẫn phải làm
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- South Vietnamese return to their
war-ruined homes following the end of the month long Communist
offensive. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, Vietnam --- Corpses in Rubble During U.S. Army Offensive
on Hue --- Image by © Christian Simonpietri/Sygma/Corbis
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Feb 1968, Hue, Vietnam --- Injured Vietnamese on Street During Army
Offensive on Hue --- Image by © Christian Simonpietri/Sygma/Corbis
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Mar 1968, Perfume River, Hue, South Vietnam --- Pedestrians make their
way up the existing span of the Bach Ho Bridge after carefully crossing
the makeshift center span. The bridge near Hue, South Vietnam, had been
partially destroyed during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. ---
Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS
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Mar 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- Pedestrians carefully cross the
makeshift center span of a bridge that has been partially destroyed
during the Vietnam War near Hue, South Vietnam. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
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Feb 1968, South Vietnam --- Hoards of Vietnamese make their way across
the wreckage of a bridge which spans the Perfume, or Huong, River. ---
Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
Vietnamese Woman And Baby, Two Of The Refugees Crossing The Perfume River. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
1968,
Hue, South Vietnam --- Refugees flee across this bridge over the
Perfume River to escape Tet fighting in Hue. The bridge was soon dropped
into the river by the Communists. Vietnam, 1968. --- Image by © CORBIS
1968,
South Vietnam --- Young and elderly Vietnamese flee across a pontoon
bridge, erected beside the wreckage of a previous structure, which spans
the Perfume, or Huong, River. --- Image by © Hulton-Deutsch
Collection/CORBIS
1968,
near Hue, South Vietnam --- The old and the young flee Tet offensive
fighting in Hue, managing to reach the south shore of the Perfume River
despite this blown bridge, 1968. --- Image by © CORBIS
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Feb 1968, Hue, South Vietnam --- Vietnamese refugees cooking and
washing outside Hue University where they sought shelter after Allied
forces entered the imperial capital to battle Communists. --- Image by ©
Bettmann/CORBIS
