Battle of Hue
Diorama Description
This diorama was put together for the Famcon show at the Frank and Son Collectible show in the City of Industry, CA on Aug 23, 2014. The diorama depicts a scene from the Battle of Hue in Northern Vietnam. This battle occurred during the Tet offensive that began on January 30, 1968. The battle was one of the bloodiest and longest battles of the Vietnam War.
The South Vietnamese and U.S. forces were completely unprepared when the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong failed to observe the promised Tet New Year truce. Instead, the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army launched a massive assault throughout South Vietnam, attacking hundreds of military targets and population centers across the country, among them the city of Hue.
The North Vietnamese forces rapidly occupied most of the city. Over the next month they were gradually driven out during intense house-to-house fighting led by the US Marines. The North Vietnamese forces lost an estimated 1,042 to 5,000 killed, while Allied forces lost 668 dead and 3,707 wounded.