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Central court of the Imperial City at Hue damaged during Vietnam War in 1968

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Creator
Margery H. Freeman
Date created
May 1997
Location
Hue, Vietnam
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This photograph copyright ©1997. Terms of use

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  • French colonization and Vietnam wars: Photographs and text tell the story of Vietnam under French colonial rule, its experience during twentieth-century wars with France and the United States, and its recent liberalization. (Page 7)

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Central court of the Imperial City at Hue damaged during Vietnam War in 1968

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Buildings in the central court of the Imperial City at Hué that were badly damaged during the Vietnam War are now topped with vegetation and surrounded by grassy fields.

In 1968 the North Vietnamese army launched the Tet Offensive against U.S. troops who responded with heavy bombing that destroyed many buildings in Hué, the old imperial capital.