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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221339-06
Color: Colour
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1968
Country: South Vietnam
Location: Hue
TC Begins: 12:44:40
TC Ends: 12:56:30
Duration: 00:11:50
Hue, South Vietnam Feb68 Note: Battle of Hue was 31Jan-26Feb68. Part of Tet Offensive, 30Jan68 - 08Jun68 A-1J Skyraider fighter plane over low firing rockets. View of river bridge & planes above. Gun boat aka patrol river boat on river w/ US flag; fires burning on opposite shore. Marines, A Company, 1st Bn, 1st Marines in ditch cleaning M-14 rifles w/ brushes. Firing 60mm mortars outside ?? 12:46:42 01Feb68 Marines advancing on buildings; along town street. MCU Marines w/ M-60 machine gun (MG) by wall. Two marines firing Howitzer (?) from jeep, then leave. Marines of H Company, 2nd Bn 5th Marines run past destruction, old walls, banana trees & gardens; thru farmyard (?). With shells over shoulders & firing M-60 MG. Wounded. or dead North Vietnamese soldier (?). 12:48:56 Running down street. Troops wiring 40 lb. shape charges & explosives in CU; three marines carry them up road. Throw hand grenade or ??. View thru destroyed building. Patrol activity & many marines run across bridge. Soldiers resting tell woman to leave; then treat wounded girl. 12:51:40 Wounded guy lowered from rooftop by group of marines & carried away on stretcher. Marine hammering on M-48 (?) tank metal w/ sledge hammer, prying with bar. CU looking at map & pointing w/ fingers. Photographer, Sgt. W.F. Dickman from Buffalo, NY, given directions. Marines surrounding building seen through trees. Large explosion seen from across street as old building destroyed. Incendiary tracers fired into it. Night & explosions & flares & fires. Vietnam War; Fighting; Battles;