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Photos Battle for Hue, 1968.
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U.S. Marine sniper taking aim at enemy forces during the defensive Battle of Hue, which is widely regarded as the single bloodiest battle of the Vietnam War, January 31 - March 2, 1968. It left thousands of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops dead, with 452 South Vietnamese and 216 American troops dead, and resulted in a withdrawal of communist forces.
Anywhere from 2,800 - 6,000 civilians were also massacred by the NVA and VC forces, and the ancient city was severely damaged.
With the help of international funding, however, most of the city's ancient sites have been restored today.
Anywhere from 2,800 - 6,000 civilians were also massacred by the NVA and VC forces, and the ancient city was severely damaged.
With the help of international funding, however, most of the city's ancient sites have been restored today.
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Yes mate, known as the M40 in USMC service
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Special reference to Hue as to the communist executions doctrine by the ex KGB agitator Yuri Bezmenov who defected in the US.
''However, those who refused to do so were either subjected to character assassination or killed. Bezmenov cited the example of the city of Hue in Vietnam where 1000s of people were executed in one night for being sympathetic to the United States. The city was under the seize of a mass political organization named Viet Cong for about 2 days when the mass killings took place. Even though the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could never understand how the operation was carried out, Bezmenov pointed out the extensive network of local informants set up by the Soviet Union to execute those who didn’t tow its line.''
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''However, those who refused to do so were either subjected to character assassination or killed. Bezmenov cited the example of the city of Hue in Vietnam where 1000s of people were executed in one night for being sympathetic to the United States. The city was under the seize of a mass political organization named Viet Cong for about 2 days when the mass killings took place. Even though the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could never understand how the operation was carried out, Bezmenov pointed out the extensive network of local informants set up by the Soviet Union to execute those who didn’t tow its line.''
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Yuri Bezmenov was in love with India so much so that he did not want the country to be 'irreparably damaged' under the Soviet influence.
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eh mostly revenge kill of south Vietnam official / police / army officer it aint serect , the south also did same crap in phoenix campaign and other , it nothing new in asia , you take over a city , you wipe out the local govt / officer / army , if this is in 1700s and hue was siege and didn't surrender the emperor will made the city a blood bath and destroy the city , which Nguyen emperor ( of Vietnam last dynasty ) did when Saigon ( or back then know at gia dinh ) made a rebellion , the emperor after take the city made it a blood bath at a revenge / show of force to the survival , destroy the fort and rebuilt a new weak ass fort which is one of the reason the French manage to capture gia dinh easy , it a influence from china war culture ,that why all east asia war are bloody , Korean was bloody in Vietnam ( killing / raping ) Japanese were bloody in ww2 vs Korean/Chinese westerner , china are bloody vs they own population and Vietnam in sino Vietnam war , KMT or Taiwan was brutal vs Chinese during civil war too , Chinese culture was amazing but it also come with cons and the cons are war culture , traitor will be kill 3 generation aka to ensure the family die out and if the family have 4 generation it will be a kid and wont know anything to revenge his family. btw French did the same crap ( not sure if influence by Vietnamese or not ) during they colonial period , my grandmother brother was jail for planting a flag in hoan kiem lake in the turtle temple , he was a teenager ( 17 year old or 18 ) they jail him in a unknow jail , then from the person in next cell ( which later help our family out a lot ) say he was taken in night and execute in hong river ( red river ) local say they see the French dump him in to the river alongside other people that they kill , till this day cant find his body , my grandmother father was kill by the French too after they ask him to translate for them after seeing he can speak French when some of they soldier try to find gold ( they know our family was rich from cloth , watch and didn't look like normal villager ( they flee from ha noi to a village ) he did so but after ask to return he was shot in the head and left dead on road side , that why war is evil it corrupt human soul even a strong base rule army like America cant stop soldier do mass killing of civilian like my lai. btw KGB story mostly bullshit , everyone know who work for American and south Vietnam regime , you cant hidden it in 1970s , soldier / official and govt worker live well off then the rest of civilian in hue , hue didn't have industry or company like in Saigon , it a old small city that only have a attraction of hue imperial city and few family who made hue tradition candy , even now day the city economic still relied on tourist and didn't have any factory zone like da nang or other provinceSpecial reference to Hue as to the communist executions doctrine by the ex KGB agitator Yuri Bezmenov who defected in the US.
''However, those who refused to do so were either subjected to character assassination or killed. Bezmenov cited the example of the city of Hue in Vietnam where 1000s of people were executed in one night for being sympathetic to the United States. The city was under the seize of a mass political organization named Viet Cong for about 2 days when the mass killings took place. Even though the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) could never understand how the operation was carried out, Bezmenov pointed out the extensive network of local informants set up by the Soviet Union to execute those who didn’t tow its line.''
Ex KGB agent Yuri Bezmenov exposes 4 stages of Communist takeover of a country
Yuri Bezmenov was in love with India so much so that he did not want the country to be 'irreparably damaged' under the Soviet influence.
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That's what he said, they executed all these people who were publicly pro US....in order to do so, you have to form a list.
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"Combat in a built-up area is close, personal and extremely violent. We were familiar with fighting in dense jungles but were disoriented by the combat in tightly packed streets. Sounds ricocheted off walls adding to the confusion of urban combat. Crumbled buildings and blind corners made perfect sniper nests and ambush points. It was chaos.
It was just absolutely utter devastation, burned out trucks and bodies on the road. The stench of death was there all the time.
I remember looking up and saw someone with a cross on his uniform, and I knew he was a chaplain. He told us, 'I don't know if some of you will make it to Sunday...I'd like to give you guys last rites.'
During the fighting, all I could hear were people say, 'I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm hit.' And I kept thinking, when is a bullet going to hit me? If there's anything close to hell, it had to be Hue."
– Richard Prince, 1/5 Marines, Hue City, Vietnam, 1968.
It was just absolutely utter devastation, burned out trucks and bodies on the road. The stench of death was there all the time.
I remember looking up and saw someone with a cross on his uniform, and I knew he was a chaplain. He told us, 'I don't know if some of you will make it to Sunday...I'd like to give you guys last rites.'
During the fighting, all I could hear were people say, 'I'm hit, I'm hit, I'm hit.' And I kept thinking, when is a bullet going to hit me? If there's anything close to hell, it had to be Hue."
– Richard Prince, 1/5 Marines, Hue City, Vietnam, 1968.
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Hue was one battle in the 1968 Tet offensive.
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it not that hard to find the list , so the kgb bull S**t about the Russian help us form the list , it like saying Vietnamese help east german form a list of pro America in east Germany @@ . it not that hard to made a list of govt worker / police and army , if you been in Vietnam you will know our neighbor hood culture , where old folk know everyone on the street and they job ( they are like human CCTV ) it not that secrect thing , there is still a lack of secrect private culture thing in Vietnam and many Asian , that why you see dummy post they social id number on facebook just to get some small gift @@ I seen a Myanmar guy on facebook group post just random take a photo of his id and post it on the group
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the whole operation was call chien dich mau than in Vietnamese cause it on the year of the monkey ( mau is han-viet for monkey the native are khi ) and during the lunar new year aka tet in Vietnamese which is The word is a shortened form of Tết Nguyên Đán (節元旦), which is Sino-Vietnamese for "Feast of the First Morning of the First Day". ( 2028 will be another monkey year , this year is mouse year or ty ( han-viet or in native Vietnamese is chuot ) in Vietnamese )hue is just one of many battle in the campaign , but hue was one of the big battle beside Saigon
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Lance Corporal C.D. Bradford, a New Jersey native from Longbranch, hefts a Thompson submachine gun with its stock removed during the building-to-building battle for Hue City. He was a radio operator for Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines during the fighting. The photo was taken on February 5, 1968.
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Staff Sergeant Clifford Chester Sims Hero of Hue
In August 1967, Sims moved to Fort Campbell, Kentucky to join Company D, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. By February 21, 1968 he was serving as a Staff Sergeant. During an engagement with enemy forces near Hue, Sims threw himself onto a triggered booby-trap device. He was killed in the ensuing explosion, but was successful in protecting the members of his squad. Staff Sergeant Simms was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military honor in the United States Military.
Staff Sergeant Clifford Chester Sims' Medal of Honor Citation reads as follows:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Staff Sergeant Clifford Chester Sims (ASN: 14780953), United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a squad leader with Company D, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in action against enemy aggressor forces at Hue, Republic of Vietnam, on 21 February 1968. Company D was assaulting a heavily fortified enemy position concealed within a dense wooded area when it encountered strong enemy defensive fire. Once within the wood line, Staff Sergeant Sims led his squad in a furious attack against an enemy force which had pinned down the 1st Platoon and threatened to overrun it. His skillful leadership provided the platoon with freedom of movement and enabled it to regain the initiative. Staff Sergeant Sims was then ordered to move his squad to a position where he could provide covering fire for the company command group and to link up with the 3d Platoon, which was under heavy enemy pressure. After moving no more than 30 meters Staff Sergeant Sims noticed that a brick structure in which ammunition was stocked was on fire. Realizing the danger, Staff Sergeant Sims took immediate action to move his squad from this position. Though in the process of leaving the area two members of his squad were injured by the subsequent explosion of the ammunition, Staff Sergeant Sims' prompt actions undoubtedly prevented more serious casualties from occurring. While continuing through the dense woods amidst heavy enemy fire, Staff Sergeant Sims and his squad were approaching a bunker when they heard the unmistakable noise of a concealed booby trap being triggered immediately to their front. Staff Sergeant Sims warned his comrades of the danger and unhesitatingly hurled himself upon the device as it exploded, taking the full impact of the blast. In so protecting his fellow soldiers, he willingly sacrificed his life. Staff Sergeant Sims' extraordinary heroism at the cost of his life is in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself and the United States Army.
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In August 1967, Sims moved to Fort Campbell, Kentucky to join Company D, 2nd Battalion (Airborne), 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. By February 21, 1968 he was serving as a Staff Sergeant. During an engagement with enemy forces near Hue, Sims threw himself onto a triggered booby-trap device. He was killed in the ensuing explosion, but was successful in protecting the members of his squad. Staff Sergeant Simms was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military honor in the United States Military.
Staff Sergeant Clifford Chester Sims' Medal of Honor Citation reads as follows:
The President of the United States of America, in the name of Congress, takes pride in presenting the Medal of Honor (Posthumously) to Staff Sergeant Clifford Chester Sims (ASN: 14780953), United States Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a squad leader with Company D, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 501st Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, in action against enemy aggressor forces at Hue, Republic of Vietnam, on 21 February 1968. Company D was assaulting a heavily fortified enemy position concealed within a dense wooded area when it encountered strong enemy defensive fire. Once within the wood line, Staff Sergeant Sims led his squad in a furious attack against an enemy force which had pinned down the 1st Platoon and threatened to overrun it. His skillful leadership provided the platoon with freedom of movement and enabled it to regain the initiative. Staff Sergeant Sims was then ordered to move his squad to a position where he could provide covering fire for the company command group and to link up with the 3d Platoon, which was under heavy enemy pressure. After moving no more than 30 meters Staff Sergeant Sims noticed that a brick structure in which ammunition was stocked was on fire. Realizing the danger, Staff Sergeant Sims took immediate action to move his squad from this position. Though in the process of leaving the area two members of his squad were injured by the subsequent explosion of the ammunition, Staff Sergeant Sims' prompt actions undoubtedly prevented more serious casualties from occurring. While continuing through the dense woods amidst heavy enemy fire, Staff Sergeant Sims and his squad were approaching a bunker when they heard the unmistakable noise of a concealed booby trap being triggered immediately to their front. Staff Sergeant Sims warned his comrades of the danger and unhesitatingly hurled himself upon the device as it exploded, taking the full impact of the blast. In so protecting his fellow soldiers, he willingly sacrificed his life. Staff Sergeant Sims' extraordinary heroism at the cost of his life is in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself and the United States Army.
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Robert L. Thoms — nicknamed “Cajun Bob” for his thick native Baton Rouge accent — was awarded the Silver Star for “conspicuous gallantry” during the assault on the Arch Tower on Feb. 15, 1968, during some of the most ferocious fighting of North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive.
Staff Sergeant Thoms' Silver Star Citation reads as follows:
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Staff Sergeant Robert L. Thoms (MCSN: 1951269), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a Platoon Commander with Company D, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, FIRST Marine Division in connection with operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On 15 February 1968 during Operations Hue City, Company D was assaulting the heavily defended Arch Tower along the fortified eastern wall of the Citadel when it came under intense enemy fire. Repeatedly exposing himself to the heavy volume of hand grenades and automatic weapons fire, Staff Sergeant Thoms led a squad forward and skillfully maneuvered his men to within thirty meters of the objective. When his attack was momentarily halted due to casualties and the increasing intensity of hostile fire, he moved to the point of heaviest contact and aggressively led an assault against the tower. Although wounded by hand grenade fragments, Staff Sergeant Thoms selflessly refused medical treatment and resolutely continued the attack despite continuous North Vietnamese fire. Inspired by his fearless leadership and aggressive fighting spirit, his men successfully routed the enemy and seized the tower. After establishing a hasty defense, he redistributed ammunition and supervised the evacuation of the wounded. Despite intense North Vietnamese mortar and rocket fire throughout the night, he maintained his position until directed to withdraw. Wounded a second time by enemy mortar fragments, he steadfastly refused medical evacuation and remained with his platoon to lead it in an aggressive counterattack the following morning, completely routing the North Vietnamese. By his dynamic leadership, dauntless courage and selfless devotion to duty at great personal risk, Staff Sergeant Thoms contributed significantly to the defeat of the enemy and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service.
The featured photo below shows Staff Sgt. Bob Thoms, upper left, Cpl. Selwyn "S-Man" Taitt, top right, and the remaining members of the assault as they took cover among the rubble.
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Staff Sergeant Thoms' Silver Star Citation reads as follows:
The President of the United States of America takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Staff Sergeant Robert L. Thoms (MCSN: 1951269), United States Marine Corps, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving as a Platoon Commander with Company D, First Battalion, Fifth Marines, FIRST Marine Division in connection with operations against the enemy in the Republic of Vietnam. On 15 February 1968 during Operations Hue City, Company D was assaulting the heavily defended Arch Tower along the fortified eastern wall of the Citadel when it came under intense enemy fire. Repeatedly exposing himself to the heavy volume of hand grenades and automatic weapons fire, Staff Sergeant Thoms led a squad forward and skillfully maneuvered his men to within thirty meters of the objective. When his attack was momentarily halted due to casualties and the increasing intensity of hostile fire, he moved to the point of heaviest contact and aggressively led an assault against the tower. Although wounded by hand grenade fragments, Staff Sergeant Thoms selflessly refused medical treatment and resolutely continued the attack despite continuous North Vietnamese fire. Inspired by his fearless leadership and aggressive fighting spirit, his men successfully routed the enemy and seized the tower. After establishing a hasty defense, he redistributed ammunition and supervised the evacuation of the wounded. Despite intense North Vietnamese mortar and rocket fire throughout the night, he maintained his position until directed to withdraw. Wounded a second time by enemy mortar fragments, he steadfastly refused medical evacuation and remained with his platoon to lead it in an aggressive counterattack the following morning, completely routing the North Vietnamese. By his dynamic leadership, dauntless courage and selfless devotion to duty at great personal risk, Staff Sergeant Thoms contributed significantly to the defeat of the enemy and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and of the United States Naval Service.
The featured photo below shows Staff Sgt. Bob Thoms, upper left, Cpl. Selwyn "S-Man" Taitt, top right, and the remaining members of the assault as they took cover among the rubble.
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#VietnamWar #vietnamvet #vietnamveteran #VietnamVets #remember #salutetoservice #lestweforget #marinecorps #usmcvet
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