The battle at Hue City highlighted the ... killer," and "You should've died in Vietnam." For doing what we considered our duty. All us 18, 19, 20-year-old Marines and soldiers, airmen, Navy ...

(Cpl. Ana S. Madrigal/Marine Corps) More than 50 years after they were wounded in desperate fighting at the battle of Hue City in Vietnam, 18 Marine veterans were finally formally presented Purple ...

and spent three months recovering in Guam before returning to finish his tour of duty.After Kohl was injured at Hue and left Vietnam to recover, the Marines fought their way through the city and ...

The city quickly fell to the PAVN and Viet ... A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam," Marines inside Hue had been fighting the way they fought in the jungles of Vietnam.

Then-captain Myron Harringto uses a radio during the assault on Dong Ba tower, in back, in Hue City, Vietnam, Feb. 13, 1968. Harrington was awared the Silver Star for leading the Marines of Delta ...

5th Marines in Hue City, had to look up how to do it in an old Marine Corps field manual. 8. Hue was a loss for North Vietnam, but it marked the beginning of the end. Even Americans who initially ...

Allied planes, tanks and troops today drove fleeing guerillas into the suburbs at Saigon Elsewhere they fought house-to-house for South ... 25-day battle for Hue.Grimy U.S. marines held back ...

It has become one of the most enduring photographs of the Vietnam War ... 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines, during Operation Hue City on Feb. 6, 1968. (National Archives/Office of the Secretary of ...

It was the 50th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, the all-out assault by North Vietnam to invade the South, and the brutal battle by U.S. Marines to take back the historic city. At the end of the ...