Archive photo of the day
Battle of Hue, 1968
Stars and Stripes
January 2, 2024
(John Olson/Stars and Stripes)
Hue, South Vietnam, February 1968: An unidentified Marine poses as rubble smokes behind him. U.S. Marines battled Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army house by house, street by street, brick by brick in a bloody effort to retake the former capital of Vietnam and its Citadel.