Battle of Hue - Part 2 - Assault on the Citadel - 1st BN/5th Marines 2/17/68
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- This is the second film, from the National Archives, that records action during the Battle of Hue, during the Tet Offensive. NARA ID: 428-NPC-42086
My uncle Alvin L Raper a Navy Corpsmen was laying out there on the ground when this video recording was made he was killed by a bouncing Betty on February 15 in The battle he would lay there one more day before his body could be retrieved NVA snipers used him for bait to try and kill more marines. May GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL AND REST IN CHRIST JESUS PEACE UNCLE SONNY!!!!!!!! You are truly loved and not forgotten.
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It looks as if there was vc/nva in every house the way they all blown up
Because VC sappers moved from house to house while fighting, they blew up holes to connect each adjacent house. During the battle of An Lộc in 1972, ARVN 81st Commando also used this same method while fighting those VC sappers.
The VC/NVA had the most effective weapon . Tenacity . You have to admire those guys - many of them were not fighting for an ideology , they were fighting for their country .
Myth: The Viet Cong were an idealistic nationalist group, just like the American Minutemen
Fact: The Viet Cong was a dedicated communist organization commanded by Ho Chi Minh and engaged in assassinations of their opponents from 1945 on.
The Viet Cong engaged in acts of terror as a matter of policy; grenades and bombs thrown into public venues, assassinations of police officers and army officials, etc.
From the beginning, in 1941, the Viet Cong systematically eliminated their opposition by betraying them to the French
Beginning in 1945 they began using assassinations and violence to eliminate opposition leaders and intimidate peasants into supporting them.
During the Tet offensive, the Viet Cong murdered more than 5000 civilians in Hue by strangulation and burying them alive.
The Viet Cong used torture and murder of village leaders to intimidate the rural population into compliance with their goals
Salute to all the “good guys” who were “just doing our job”.
Can anyone tell me how many American lives were lost in the Hue war?