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VIDEO| Vietnam veteran A.B. Grantham talks about the Battle of Hue

VIDEO| Vietnam veteran A.B. Grantham talks about the Battle of Hue

Pfc. A.B. Grantham, foreground, and other wounded Marines receive medical attention as they are evacuated on a tank during the fierce fighting of the Tet offensive. Grantham, an 18-year-old from Mobile, Ala., was unconscious and struggling to breathe after being shot in the chest.

John Olson ©Stars and Stripes

Hue, South Vietnam, February, 1968: Pfc. A.B. Grantham, foreground, and other wounded Marines receive medical attention as they are evacuated on a tank during the fierce fighting of the Tet offensive. Grantham, an 18-year-old from Mobile, Ala., was unconscious and struggling to breathe after being shot in the chest; another Marine took cellophane from cigarette packs and stuffed it in his wound before wrapping it in bandages. | BUY THIS PHOTO

By Stars and Stripes | August 29, 2018


During the Battle of Hue in February, 1968, 18-year-old U.S. Marine Pfc. A.B. Grantham of Mobile, Ala., was shot in the chest by a North Vietnamese soldier.

"I was looking right down the barrel of the gun," Grantham recalled.

As Grantham and other Marines were evacuated on a tank, Stars and Stripes photographer John Olson captured an image that was later published in Life magazine as part of a photo spread on the Tet Offensive.

In 2018, during the opening of an exhibit of Olson's photos of the war at the Newseum  in Washington, D.C., Olson, Grantham and several of veterans of the Hue battle visited Stars and Stripes. In this video, Grantham tells his story.