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, a group of officers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and US Army officers discusses the recovery of the remains and personal effects of the victims. Totalling about 428 people, the victims, most of them Roman Catholics, 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 tall US Army officer in the cap may be Brigadier General Allan Gardner Pixton of the US 24th Corps, while the name of the ARVN officer in the beret is Teng.