At the site of a massacre carried out by the Viet Cong along Da Mai Creek south of Hue during the ...

At the site of a massacre carried out by the Viet Cong along Da Mai Creek south of Hue during the 1968 Tet Offensive, soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) recover the remains and clothing of victims of the mass killing. The soldier in the camouflage uniform (right) is carefully placing a bone of one of the dead in an empty flour sack for safe transportation into Hue. The victims, most of them Roman Catholics, totalled about 428 people and comprised clergymen, senior government employees, doctors, teachers, other professionals and anyone else sympathetic to the South Vietnamese regime and its American supporters. The Viet Cong rounded them up and confined them in Hue's Phu Cam Cathedral before leading them out of the city in early February 1968 and shooting them dead along the banks of the creek. Following information provided by enemy defectors, the US 1st/502d Infantry Regiment, 101st Infantry Division (Airmobile), located the remains on 19 September 1969. The clothing and other personal effects recovered at the massacre site will be used to help identify the victims.