19680400 - tet viet cong & nva offensive 1968 photos

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Situation Room: Walt Rostow shows President Lyndon B.

Johnson a model of the Khe Sanh area, 02/15/1968


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A grenadier from the 3rd Platoon, Company 2nd H, 2nd

Battalion, 5th Marines, carries a Vietnamese woman from Hue

Hospital to safety during the battle for Hue., 02/05/1968

Dickman, SGT, Photographer


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Hue, Vietnam. City officials of Hue who are responsible for

identifying the victims of the Tet Offensive of 1968 arrange the

coffins before the funeral services., 1969

Office of the Chief Signal


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Photograph of Soldiers at Hue City, 02/06/1968

Original caption: Twentieth Century "Angel of Mercy" -- D.

R. Howe (Glencoe, MN) treats the wounds of Private FirstClass D. A. Crum (New Brighton, PA), "H" Company, 2nd

Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, during Operation Hue City.


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Members of the 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne

Division (Airmobile), join the children of Ap Uu Thoung

hamlet in a game of baseball. The troopers are members of a

Battalion Action Team involved in pacification operations inPhong Dieu District, north of Hue., 01/15/1970

Roger I. Pinnell, 2LT, Photographer


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Walter Cronkite and a CBS Camera crew use a jeep for a dolly

during an interview with the commanding officer of the 1st

Battalion, 1st Marines, during the Battle of Hue City.,

02/20/1968


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Walter Cronkite of CBS interviewing Professor Mai of the

University of Hue., 02/20/1968


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Sergeant P.L. Thompson sits on a throne in the palace in the

old city of Hue., 02/24/1968

Harlam, 3rd MAF, Photographer


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Almost 400 men, women and children massacred by the Viet

Cong during "Tet 1968" were mourned at a common-grave

burial on October 14. This young widow, carrying a

photograph of her missing husband, mourns at the massfuneral service. Hue, 1968.

U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service


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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


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A marine Ontos crew member relaxes during a break in the

fighting at Hue., 02/23/1968

Messenger, LCpl, Photographer


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M-113 armored personnel carriers stand by as Vietnamese

refugees evacuate the village of My Tho, Dinh Tuong Province

during the Tet Offensive., 1968


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Battle of Hamo Village during Tet.


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Saigon, Vietnam. Rubble and the remains of barbed wire line

the streets of Cholon, a suburb of Saigon that was burned by

South Vietnamese army troops in an effort to flush out any

Viet Cong that remained after the Tet offensive in lateJanuary. 02/1968

T.L. Lawson, PH1, Photographer


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This bridge over the Perfume River in Hue was still standing

as these refugees fled across it to escape Tet fighting, but it

soon was dropped into the river by the communists., 1968


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Black smoke covers areas of the capital city and fire trucks

rush to the scenes of fires set during attacks by the Viet Cong

during the festive Tet holiday period. Saigon, 1968.


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Youthful hard-core Viet Cong, heavily guarded, awaits

interrogation following capture in the attacks on the capital

city during the festive Tet holiday period., 1968

U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service.


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