SITUATION IN HUE, MIDMORNING 2 FEBRUARY 1968

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Tet Declassified
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02957758
• Document Creation Date: January 28, 2019

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SITUATION IN HUE, MIDMORNING 2 FEBRUARY 19 68
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1. THE MILITARY SITUATION IN HUE, AS OF MID-MORNING 2
FEBRUARY, IS AS FOLLOWS:
A. THE USMC BATTALION SOUTH OF THE PERFUME RIVER CONTROLS
THE LCU RAMP (LANDING ZONE), THE MACV COMPOUND AND SECTOR HEAD-
QUARTERS WHICH IS ADJACENT. IT ATTEMPTED TO MOVE OUT EARLY THIS
MORNING AND ENCOUNTERED HEAVY RESISTANCE, TOOK HEAVY CASUALTIES
AND, BECAUSE IT RAN OUT OF 901M AMMUNITION, STOPPED ITS ADVANCE.
B. GENERAL LAM, COMMANDING GENERAL I CORPS, HAS APPROVED
BOMBING OF SELECTED TARGETS IN THE CITY, STARTING WITH "SMALL"
BOMBS AND THEN GETTING BIGGER.
C. THERE ARE FIVE ARUN BATT/LIONS COMMITTED TO THE
LIBERATION OF HUE. AN AIRBORNE BATTALION WAS PUT INTO THE
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HOSPITAL AREA WITHIN THE CITADEL, ADJACENT TO ARVN FIRST DIVISION
HEADQUARTERS; AN AIRBORNE BATTALION IS APPROACHING HUE FROM THE NORTH;
ONE BATTALION IS TRYING TO GET INTO THE CITADEL FROM THE WEST AND
ANOTHER FROM THE EAST, BOTH MEETING HEAVY RESISTANCE.
D. THERE HAS BEEN DISCUSSION OF COMMITTING A U.S. FIRST
AIR CAVALRY BATTALION INTO THE CITADLE THIS AFTERNOON.
E. IN THE MACV COMPOUND THERE WERE 19 AMERICAN CIVILIANS
WOUNDED, OF WHOM 8 WERE MEDEVACED; AS WELL AS 11 MACV MEMBERS
MEDEVACED.
F. SPORADIC MORTARING OF THE MACV COMPOUND CONTINUES.
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