Word: hu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hué map (p. 37), Correspondent Glenn Troelstrup made on-the-spot diagrams of the street fighting. These were air-expressed to New York and translated by Cartographer Vincent Puglisi onto a U.S. Army street map of the city that had been wheedled from Pentagon sources...
...Thuot, the attackers used civilians as human shields, pushing from 1,000 to 4,000 people ahead of them in four separate marches. In Hué, U.S. Marines found two executed Americans, their testicles cut off. The North Vietnamese units who took Hué were ac companied by political commissars wearing gold-colored Ho Chi Minh buttons and special arm bands. Armed with complete dossiers and photographs of government officials to be arrested and executed, they methodically went from house to house with clipboards and notebooks, looking for their quarry...
Almost uniquely in Viet Nam last week, it was possible to follow clearly the progression of one battle: the block-by-block struggle of the allies to recapture the city of Hué from the North Vietnamese units that swept into it two weeks ago. The North Vietnamese had arrived to stay, and students from the University of Hué acted as their guides, in some cases donning the uniform of Viet Cong regulars. As the ancient capital of Viet Nam, Hue was a prime piece of captured real estate for propaganda purposes, and the NVA fought for every inch...
Gradually, the battling turned the once beautiful city into a nightmare. Hué's streets were littered with dead. A black-shirted Communist soldier sprawled dead in the middle of a road, still holding a hand grenade. A woman knelt in death by a wall in the corner of her garden. A child lay on the stairs, crushed by a fallen roof. Many of the bodies had turned black and begun to decompose, and rats gnawed at the exposed flesh...
Giap, 56, was not born to the bush. The son of a poor but educated landholder in what is now North Viet Nam, he was sent to an exclusive college in the old imperial capital of Hué, got a law degree from the French-run University of Hanoi and finally emerged as a history teacher at Hanoi's Thang Long School. His idol, even then, was Napoleon. "He could step to the blackboard," one of his former students recalls, "and draw in the most minute detail every battle plan of Napoleon." But his admiration for the French stopped...