USS Hue City (CG 66) hosted a memorial ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Hue aboard Naval Station Mayport Aug. 28. Hue City, a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser, is ...

That sound sends chills down the spine of Navy medics. It means a Marine has been wounded – or worse. Corpsmen spring into action with little regard for their own safety to help fallen comrades, often ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: By the time the survivors of the last NVA units slipped out of the city on March 3, Bowden estimates that ten thousand had died in the struggle for Hue—including roughly ...

With backing from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, paperwork to upgrade the Navy Cross awarded to then-Marine Gunnery Sgt. John Canley to the Medal of Honor for his actions in the Battle of Hue City in ...

When did the tide of war turn decisively against the United States in Vietnam? The question has nagged at Americans ever since North Vietnamese tanks rumbled into Saigon in 1975, capping three decades ...

But the troops in Hue were not permitted to call upon them, nor use the main guns on their tanks, for fear of destroying the city’s historic buildings. Bad weather and a paucity of nearby artillery ...

HUE, South Vietnam, Feb. 15, 1968 (UPI) - When the attacks started, North Vietnamese troops, perhaps 2,400 of them, seized this ancient city in a blitzkrieg invasion that did the job in about two ...