When hundreds of thousands of Communist soldiers poured into South Vietnam with overwhelming force on January 30, 1968, the few men that survived the onslaught gathered inside the MACV-SOG compound south of the Perfume River.
Every village, town, and base was violently attacked, and the American and ARVN forces were caught entirely off guard. Soon, the city of Huế was overrun, and most of its defenders and thousands of civilians lost their lives.
The remaining commandos bravely held their position inside the compound, but their luck was quickly running out. However, several units of fearless Marines suddenly arrived to help.
With the clock ticking, the Marines engaged the enemy in brutal house-to-house combat that turned Huế into one of the bloodiest and largest battles of the war, becoming the first time since the capture of Seoul during the Korean War that the Marines engaged an enemy in urban combat…
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