As celebration of the lunar new year, the ‘tet’ is an ... and Communist Viet Cong forces would use the event to their advantage to strategically launch an offensive when the enemy’s guard ...

Saigon, Vietnam, May 5, 1968: Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers guard a captured and blindfolded Viet Cong fighter ... The offensive — dubbed the May Offensive or Little Tet — would ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/will12840.4 The Tet Offensive of 1968 was the pivotal event of the long Vietnam War. Its outcome and meaning have been the ...

two days after the forces of the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong launched the Tet Offensive. Dozens of South Vietnamese cities were caught by surprise. Heavy street fighting had pitched ...

Equipment from the Ho Chi Minh Trail was stored in underground tunnels and bunkers like this one, before being smuggled into South Vietnam's ... urban combat of the Tet Offensive was not something ...

The Company was told that dozens of Viet Cong troops were passing through the area, retreating from battle after the Tet Offensive. Captain Ernest Medina had told his men that all Vietnamese ...

Hanoi’s decision to launch the Tet offensive was born of desperation. It was an effort to seize the northern provinces of South Vietnam with conventional troops while triggering an urban ...

January 30-31: Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces launch the Tet offensive, a massive series of attacks across South Vietnam. Although the operation is a military disaster for the Viet Cong ...

This particular helicopter has a tragic history, however. On Jan. 30, 1968 — during North Vietnam’s mammoth Tet Offensive — Chief Warrant Officer Tommy G. Sandefur of Tulsa, Oklahoma was ...

The Vietnam Veterans of America County Chapter 268, gathered on Monday for the yearly placement of a holiday wreath beside the veterans monument on the Niagara Hospice campus. Gordie Bellinger led the ...

Allison breaks down additional battlefield tactics used by the Viet Cong, or VC ... and the nighttime attacks of the Tet Offensive in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987). He covers the public perception ...