Following a month of intense, bloody street fighting during the 1968 Tet Offensive, the city of Hue in Vietnam became the site of mass graves for approximately 2,800 bodies of civilians and South Vietnamese officials. They were executed by North Vietnamese forces in what is called the Hue Massacre, which lasted for 26 days from 31 January 1968. The graves were located in and around the city, Object collected by WO2 Robert Palmer Matthews (# 34974) of the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps.Booklet by Kenneth Gee. 10 pages of graphic black and white images of bodies and ugliness of war.The Graves of Hue/ By Kenneth Gee/ A short story of the use of terror/ as a political weapon by the/ communists in South Vietnam.booklet, the graves of hue, kenneth gee, vietnam, atrocities - vietnam, vietcong, hue, hue massacre, tet offensive

Systematic Terrorism is one of most formidable weapons in the Communist armoury.vietnam war, 1961-1975 - atrocities, political atrocities - vietnam

Denis Gibbons (1937 – 2011) Trained with the Australian Army, before travelling to Vietnam in January 1966, Denis stayed with the 1st Australian Task Force in Nui Dat working as a photographer. For almost five years Gibbons toured with nine Australian infantry battalions, posting compelling war images from within many combat zones before being flown out in late November 1970 after sustaining injuries. The images held within the National Vietnam Veterans Museum make up the Gibbons Collection. A black and white photograph of a young Vietnamese woman lighting incense in remembrance of members of her extended family following the opening of mass graves around Huephotograph, hue, mass graves, gibbons collection catalogue, vietnamese woman, denis gibbons