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

5.1K views · 676 reactions | Christmas morning in 1968, Apollo 8 headed back to Earth with an engine burn, leaving lunar orbit. Jim Lovell radioed down their success: “Roger, please be informed there is a Santa Claus.” The first crew to the Moon then safely splashed down on Dec. 27. https://go.nasa.gov/2KL5JLa | NASA's Johnson Space Center | Facebook

11K views · 342 reactions | In 1968, nearly 10,000 antiwar protestors took to the streets of Chicago to call for the end of the Vietnam War. See footage of those history-making events on Smithsonian Time Capsule: 1968 - https://bitly.com/2ZDjNLd | Smithsonian Channel Aviation Nation | Facebook