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Title
River of Perfume
Description
The fighting in Hue was some of the most bitter of the war. It was a mix of Vietnam and Stalingrad. South of the Perfume River Marines fought the Viet Cong block by block, house by house, and room by …
Publisher
Date
1968-02-08
Scenario#
FH08
Scenario Description
The fighting in Hue was some of the most bitter of the war. It was a mix of Vietnam and Stalingrad. South of the Perfume River Marines fought the Viet Cong block by block, house by house, and room by room. It was bloody work, even for Vietnam. Yet by February 9th the Maxines had cleared the Viet Cong from the southern portion of the city.
Location
Hue, South Vietnam
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Hue (31 January 1968 – 2 March 1968), also called the Siege of Hue, was a major military engagement in the Tet Offensive launched by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. After initially losing control of most of Hue and its surroundings, the combined South Vietnamese and American forces gradually recaptured the city over one month of intense fighting. The battle was one of the longest and bloodiest of the war, and the battle negatively affected American public perception of the war. By the beginning of the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive on 30 January 1968, which coincided with the Vietnamese Tet Lunar New Year, large conventional American forces had been committed to combat operations on Vietnamese soil for almost three years.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Battle of Hue
Combatants
American
NVA/VC

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