How badly was the city of Hue effected in TET 68?

[GEORGE CURTIS]

Some estimates held that over 80 percent of the structures in the city sustained damage or were destroyed. Out of a population of about 140,000, more than 116,000 people were homeless and 5,800 were either dead or missing. According to most reports, Hue was a devastated city.

MACV Command dHistory 1967
Pages 75, 98

[Ed Egan]

Hue was affected badly enough that we said at the time: "We had to destroy the city in order to save it".