US Marines in Vietnam: Episode 11: The Battle for Hue

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Valorous TV

Жыл бұрын

The city of Hue was the site of one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the Vietnam War.

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@alvinuselton912 Жыл бұрын

My uncle was a Navy Corpsmen who was KIA In Hue on February 15 1968 he had been in country for a total of 45days Alvin Louis Raper. Loved dearly and not forgotten May GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL UNCLE SONNY!!

@kingdedede9135 Жыл бұрын

@@Khai-Tran He died for nothing. He didn't die for freedom. Stop enabling stupid wars

@70stunes71 8 ай бұрын

🙏🙏🇱🇷 RIP to a brother...🪖

@YoshiYosheda 3 ай бұрын

Navy corpsman are a rare breed.

@willmears1111 11 ай бұрын

There were many fantastic 2/5 and 1/5 Marines, a small 1st ARVN garrison, and a small First Cavalry unit of 400 near the Western gate side of the Citidel that all fought with odds of 20 to 30 to one during the battle. None had training in urban warfare, but we learnt quickly. Also over 2,800 ordinary Vietnamese school teachers, government workers, and other ordinary people were executed by the North Vietnamese during the battle, and buried in a mass grave which we found afterwards. The Communist North Vietnamese soldiers did not get the free South Vietnamese people to join them against their own country, and these innocents paid the ultimate price. I remember these heroes every day. A Military Intelligence Vietnam Veteran I Corp. Phu Bai/Hue 1967-1969,

@ocsplc Жыл бұрын

Let this Marine quote Chesty: “Old breed. New breed. I don’t care as long as it’s the Marine breed,”

@rolandcortes469 Жыл бұрын

A VERY BIG SALUTE TO US SOLDIERS WHO FOUGHT IN VIETNAM...DIRTY WAR.

@bradr2142 Жыл бұрын

I'll second with a very big salute.

@harryknickerbocker9889 8 ай бұрын

Good show. I was with the 9th Marines. Hue was a hellava fight but the Marines carried the day. I have so much respect for these guys.

@timmiller745 Жыл бұрын

My brother was KIA Feb 19th at Hue. I've been told his whole unit got killed except for his Captain and one other.

@70stunes71 8 ай бұрын

RIP to a brother 🙏 🪖

@garyluck8502 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your service to all of these marines! Everyone please remember the ones that didn’t make it back home! Thanks

@57Stratmann Жыл бұрын

Excellent, keep them coming !!! God bless the Marine Corps that served in Vietnam.

@ocsplc Жыл бұрын

Ditto Sir

@melvinjamerson1920 9 ай бұрын

Yup America 🇺🇲💯

@sky44david Жыл бұрын

This is an excellent straight forward documentation, thanks for producing this and persevering our history.

@jonhenson5450 Жыл бұрын

Reference: " Phase Line Green" by Lt. Nick Warr gives a really good description of 1/5 grinding down the Citadel.

@equine2020 Жыл бұрын

Marines don't talk about it, they Do it. Close ground air support. Air Force said it couldn't be done. Marine pilot's did it. 1st in, last out in war. My brother Marine Recon, am I proud of him. YES. He came back from Nam, sadly a changed person. He lived HELL everyday.

@hexebarya7395 Жыл бұрын

Did he lost his mind?

@equine2020 Жыл бұрын

@@hexebarya7395 Did who lose his mind?

@hexebarya7395 Жыл бұрын

@@equine2020 your uncle

@equine2020 Жыл бұрын

@@hexebarya7395 ?? My uncle was Navy. 1 uncle Marine . And my brother Marine. What are you saying?

@hexebarya7395 Жыл бұрын

@@equine2020 oh Im sorry I thought you are talking anout your uncle well its all about you marine brother so is he okay I mean did he suffered ptsd after his service

@curtishughes5430 11 ай бұрын

Proud of being part of this fighting family.

@fredrickmillstead2804 11 ай бұрын

My brothers who survived and who gave the final sacrifice, Semper Fi. Capt. Christmas retired as a B.Gen if i remember correctly.

@JeepWrangler1957 Жыл бұрын

Semper Fi to my brother Marines

@melvinjamerson1920 9 ай бұрын

Heroes,,, One,n, All,,,🖖✌️🤞🇺🇲💯🖖

@tomquigley3315 Жыл бұрын

God Bless the United States Marines.

@user-me9fk1ig2u 11 ай бұрын

My father did 2tours in Vietnam.

@Jersey2tall86 11 ай бұрын

Love this series. Semper Fi.

@algonquin7187 10 ай бұрын

marines are a whole different kind of soldier

@TheDustysix Жыл бұрын

Semper Fi Bob Richmond.

@vanlock4809 Ай бұрын

I was there with the Navy Detachment HUE RAMP Feb to September 1968.

@xxxxxx-tq4mw Жыл бұрын

The hue action ended on March 02,1968 which was a Saturday, because i got drafted into the american army on March 04, 1968, a Monday, and while still at the induction center, and having been sworn in, the marines came over to our group and pulled 4 guys out for their beloved corp. eff. that !

@geraldiversonjr.7028 Жыл бұрын

Thanks US Troops I will not forget Sharkie in DC

@Activedead Жыл бұрын

RESPECT.

@borisyelp5195 Жыл бұрын

To this day you can still see bullet holes in buildings in hue

@rickygee9135 9 ай бұрын

God bless you.

@creekandseminole 24 күн бұрын

Wow I didn't know Dale Dye fought at Hue

@seanberthiaume6909 Жыл бұрын

It compared to Faluji Iraq in I believe in 2008...

@fredrickmillstead2804 11 ай бұрын

I agree. In Hue I ended up using a 12 ga pump shotgun , effective and handy indoors.

@AlbertPariwa 11 ай бұрын

I'd like to commence Episode 1and on.

@jonness8927 Жыл бұрын

Oh well. Another US Marine documentary with mostly "US ARMY" footage! If you didn't notice, most of the combat scenes were of US Army personal fighting in Saigon during TET!

@B126USMC 19 күн бұрын

Ahhh.....I wasn't at Hue...further south. However, I believe the Army was sent to reinforce the Marines....who were vastly outnumbered. Marines sent in thinking there was an NVA force they could handle(using a couple of companies); however, the lead units going in pretty much lost everyone. Like I said, I wasn't there, I was further south; I believe it was the 5th Marines that went in to retake the city. As noted, Marines at this time weren't trained for 'urban' combat. Jungle warfare, guerrilla warfare was what we trained for. These Marines took this city back almost inch by inch, yard by yard. Very, very slow forward movement. Also, many of these Marines engaged in hand to hand combat .These men deserve much respect. Some of the "GREATEST" of all time. Semper Fi ...... To jonness8927.....were you in Vietnam ?

@terryschaaf4410 Жыл бұрын

we did get pinned down and lost over 58 thousand young men.....we were cannon fodder and i did not want to die over there.....but got hammered anyway.....100 percent

@platoon2047 Жыл бұрын

Semper Fi

@user-xy5pc6qx8z 11 ай бұрын

That damn 6x6 ran over that marine who was taking cover behind it ! And they had been putting our dead on top of the 6x6 after losing 2 tanks, we had a small squad of about 8 guys making a push for the northeast corner of the compound and just as they rounded the corner they were hit with 3 rpg rockets fired at the same time 4 we're killed one badly wounded with 1 leg and both arms blown off and the 1 that could walk made it just behind the armored personal transport and collapsed and died from being burned, he had carried his own insides back with him in his hands

@greavous93 Жыл бұрын

your thumbnail image has soldiers with the incorrect era helmet on their heads. You should do a better job.

@Jleed989 Жыл бұрын

Wish they could have let the NVA take the city then fly over with B52s and cave it in. No need for street fighting

@waynescales7231 Жыл бұрын

Believe it or not for a while during the battle for hue the weren't allowed use artillery so in order to preserve the ancient imperial city of hue an all it's beautiful buildings

@daveryan6426 Жыл бұрын

The 'Ancient' capitol? The citadel was around 125 years old in 1968. Semper fi.

@basedtrucker Жыл бұрын

Yeah but some of the buildings are way older than that

@tomviktorsson5052 Жыл бұрын

lol , hue citadel were built in the 1600s , it were reinforced, upgraded or restructured in the 1800s. there have always been a citadel and city there, which were pretty untouched by the French , in comparison to Hanoi and Saigon.

@algonquin7187 10 ай бұрын

@@tomviktorsson5052 french have class and artistic appreciation

@johndilivio2770 Жыл бұрын

Marines started draft people during vietnam war

@borisyelp5195 Жыл бұрын

No they didn't! Lol!

@XNY556-Apple 11 ай бұрын

Yes they did

@sunahangrai3601 8 ай бұрын

hey! you are always talking about the traps but don't mention the number of soldiers died in traps .

@johndilivio2770 Жыл бұрын

Most marine companies half get kia

@okinawanah3463 3 ай бұрын

Hue is what they used to learn with Fallujah Iraq

@chuckmcgillis8160 8 ай бұрын

No way could we have won that war. The viet kong and Vietnamese army were too entrenched with tunnels and in the jungle bush hidden . They hit then scoot . While our lz's were out in the open and easily targeted . We would have to fight the war on their terms not ours. And if we did use their tactics it might have lasted decades or even centuries . We had to pull out .

@chieubui9378 Жыл бұрын

We lost by the best 🎉

@bernardoconforme8333 11 ай бұрын

0:47

@josereis6173 Жыл бұрын

Mano traduzir em português brother valeu estamos juntos

@roynoccorina5022 Жыл бұрын

17 minute 15 seconds. WTF !!

@B126USMC 19 күн бұрын

What do you mean ?

@roynoccorina5022 18 күн бұрын

@@B126USMC just commenting on the dead marines on top of the top of the vehicle and the dragging away of another dead marine. Nothing besides that. Roy

@jessemerrellmerrell7353 3 ай бұрын

Why? Why were we there?

@YoshiYosheda 3 ай бұрын

Wasnt dye a newspaper coriaponant?

@billywylie3288 Жыл бұрын

There

@Carl-ht7cg Жыл бұрын

Donate to the "Wounded Warrior Project"

@borisyelp5195 Жыл бұрын

LOL! I don't think so considering they got busted for using the money on lavish trips and blew some of the money on themselves.

@carlpresley9097 Жыл бұрын

What about the 1st cavalry

@jonness8927 Жыл бұрын

US Marines inside Hue during TET....... What most people don't know is that the 1st Cav and (some units of the 101st) were involved in Brutal combat in the areas around Hue during TET (west and north of the city). Some of the toughest fighting (including the Ia Drang) by the 1st Cav during the Vietnam war occurred during the 1968 TET offensive around Hue! This brutal combat involving the 1st Cav went on for many months after Hue city was secured by the Marines. The 1st Cav was "tasked" with stopping the flow of replacements and supplies into Hue city during the offensive and also the destruction of the NVA units trying to flee Hue after the offensive and also the "mopping-up" of 10,000's of NVA troops in the Hue area after the TET offensive. The Headquarters of the NVA was NOT situated within the city of Hue during the TET offensive but within a complex of villages to the Northwest of Hue city during the fighting. The 1st Cav attacked this NVA command center (while the Marines were fighting within Hue city) and destroyed it during many days of extremely bitter fighting.

@fredrickmillstead2804 11 ай бұрын

The 1st Cav fought in IaDrang in 1965. You have your dates wrong. The Ia Drang valley is in the central Highlands, far to the south. Hue was in I Corps TAOR was the Marines responsibility. 1st Cav was far south. I know, I was there.

@jds6206 11 ай бұрын

Westmoreland was the WRONG man to be in Vietnam, commanding American forces. Giap was the RIGHT man to be in Vietnam commanding North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces. Marines and ARV forces possessed not a single item of bullet-proof equipment, unlike today. Despite lacking urban warfare training, the Marines and the ARV forces did the best they could; however, at what a horrific cost. Makes almost no sense to equivocate over our losses compared to the NVA and VC.....Giap was in the war for the 'long game' and we were not. Certainly, political forces adversely influenced America's Vietnam experience.......Giap and Ho knew it, and played us.

@JeffSmith-hc8nw Жыл бұрын

@johndilivio2770 Жыл бұрын

Usa marines take more kia and wounded than any other service

@Jleed989 Жыл бұрын

12,000 marines Kia in Vietnam, more than 30,000 US Army

@platoon2047 Жыл бұрын

@@Jleed989 % wise more - there were fewer Marines

@brianford8493 11 ай бұрын

Still had yer ass kicked by victor charles and it wont matter how you all spin it.....all that support without which that whupping would have been more profound.