Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
March 29, 2004

Battle for Hue
John Olson ©Stars and Stripes

Hue, South Vietnam, February, 1968: A U.S. Marine carries a wounded Vietnamese child, wrapped in a blanket, to an ambulance for evacuation from the war-torn city. U.S. troops had been fighting to capture Hue's old Imperial Palace, a communist stronghold, for more than two weeks.

RELATED MATERIAL
¶ Read two stories about the battle from Stripes' February 21, 1968 Pacific edition:
     Allies push on in Hue citadel (Click here)
     How Marines captured shattered tower (Click here)
Click here for more photos from the batle for Hue


Past photos of the day

March, 2004
March 28, 2004: New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey arrives in Germany, 1949
(With story)
March 27, 2004: Japan's Crown Prince Akihito on his tour of the West, 1953

March 26, 2004: Henry Kissinger and his parents return to his hometown in Germany, 1975 (With story)
March 25, 2004: Lee Strasberg conducts a seminar on acting, 1978 (With story)
March 24, 2004: Actress Sophia Loren meets the press in Madrid, 1963 (With story)
March 23, 2004: Young Communists rally in Berlin's Eastern sector, 1950 (With story and additional photos)
March 22, 2004: Led Zeppelin onstage in Frankfurt, 1970 (With story and additional photos)
March 21, 2004: Composer Igor Stravinsky, 1955
March 20, 2004: Generals Maxwell Taylor and Anthony McAuliffe, 1956

March 19, 2004: Bill Boyd, TV's "Hopalong Cassidy," 1954 (With additional photos
March 18, 2004: Cardinal Spellman visits the troops at Mannheim, 1966 (With story)
March 17, 2004: Prime Minister Eamon De Valera of Ireland, 1958 (With story)
March 16, 2004: Europe gets its first UNIVAC computer, 1956 (With additional photos)
March 15, 2004: Peter Sellers, during the filming of After the Fox, 1965 (With stories and additional photos)
March 14, 2004: Demolition of Field Marshal von Rundstedt's WWII headquarters, 1947 (With story)
March 13, 2004: Face to face with Nikita Khrushchev, 1961

March 12, 2004: Real-life "Willie and Joe" slog through the mud, 1971 (With stories and additional photos)
March 11, 2004: Johnny Weissmuller, swimmer-turned-Tarzan, 1971 (With story)
March 10, 2004: Tennis star Maureen Connolly, 1954 (With stories)
March 9, 2004: An island is born off the coast of Iceland, 1966 (With story)
March 8, 2004: Gen. Chuck Yeager at his desk at Ramstein AB, 1969 (With story)
March 7, 2004: Musician Frank Zappa backstage, 1970 (With story)
March 6, 2004: Martha Raye entertains troops during the Berlin Airlift, 1948 (With additional photos)
March 5, 2004: Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 1963 (With story)
March 4, 2004: Ex-heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston, 1966 (With story)
March 3, 2004: Former Vice President Richard Nixon and family, 1963 (With story)
March 2, 2004: Author Thornton Wilder, 1948 (With story)
March 1, 2004: Aerial view of divided Berlin, 1967 (With story and additional photos)


February, 2004
February 29, 2004: Author James Baldwin in Stuttgart, 1972
(With stories)
February 28, 2004: Comedian Vaughn Meader, JFK impressionist, 1963 (With story)
February 27, 2004: Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, down in the mosh pit, 1994 (With story)
February 26, 2004: Clyde Lee Conrad waits for the verdict in his espionage trial, 1990 (With stories)
February 25, 2004: Ella Fitzgerald performs at a Frankfurt hospital, 1952 (With additional photos)
February 24, 2004: Japanese radicals protest Narita airport work, 1971 (With story and additional photos)
February 23, 2004: Bing Crosby tees off at Frankfurt, 1976 (With story)
February 22, 2004: Ingrid Bergman on her way to Berlin, 1963 (With story)
February 21, 2004: Mr. and Mrs. Tex Ritter begin a tour of bases in Europe, 1971 (With story)
February 20, 2004: Homecoming from the Gulf War, 1991 (With story)
February 19, 2004: President Reagan speaks at Pointe du Hoc, France, 1984 (With stories)
February 18, 2004: Jazz great Lionel Hampton in Germany, 1958 (With story and additional photos)
February 17, 2004: King Saud of Saudi Arabia and King Idris I of Libya, 1957 (With story)
February 16, 2004: Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, WWII hero of two theaters, 1982 (With story)
February 15, 2004: U.S. Marine in the Saudi Arabian desert, 1990 (With stories)
February 14, 2004: Actor Rock Hudson in Germany, 1954 (With additional photos)
February 13, 2004: Gypsy Rose Lee shopping in the Saigon market, 1969 (With stories)
February 12, 2004: Soviet sector police march to a Berlin May Day rally, 1948 (With stories)
February 11, 2004: Bandleader Count Basie, 1968 (With stories)
February 10, 2004: Helicopter landing on the USS Fife in the Gulf of Oman, 1990 (With story)
February 9, 2004: Director Alfred Hitchcock's familiar profile, 1955 (With additional photos)
February 8, 2004: Lenny Kravitz at Frankfurt's Festhalle, 1996 (With story)
February 7, 2004: Sen. George McGovern in Tokyo, 1971 (With story)
February 6, 2004: Dr. Albert Schweitzer and West German President Theodor Heuss, 1951 (With story)
February 5, 2004: The Bridge at Remagen, six years after the crucial WWII battle, 1951 (With story)
February 4, 2004: Country music star Charley Pride, 1967 (With story)
February 3, 2004: Seawolf helicopters patrolling the Mekong Delta, 1967 (With additional photos)
February 2, 2004: A "wedding" in Mogadishu, Somalia, 1993 (With story)
February 1, 2004: Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor at Rhein-Main, 1964 (With stories)

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