6 February 1968 - Hue, Vietnam On this day in 1968, Marines recapture the provincial headquarters building in Hue, pull down the Communist flag, and run up the "Stars and Stripes." Photo: Happy Marines from Company H, 2d Battalion, 5th Marines display the Viet Cong banner that flew from a flagpole in the courtyard of the provincial building. The Marines raised the American flag in its stead, ignoring for a time a MACV directive that forbade the display of the U.S. flag without the South Vietname