30 January 1968

War & Conflict

Tet Offensive

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The Tet Offensive was both a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and the Viet Cong (VC) launched a surprise attack on 30 and 31 January 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies, targeting military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. The name is the truncated version of the Lunar New Year festival name in Vietnamese, Tết Nguyên Đán, a holiday period when most ARVN personnel were on leave.

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Tet Offensive mapWest PointPublic domainWikimedia Commons
1969 Đài phát thanh Qui Nhơn - Bị phá hủy trong Tết 68 (9680615634)tommy japan from japanCC BY 2.0Wikimedia Commons
1st Battalion, 18th Infantry soldiers among headstones in Mac Dinh Chi CemeterySP5 James NewlinPublic domainWikimedia Commons
1st Battalion, 18th Infantry soldiers enter Mac Dinh Chi Cemetery to search for Viet Cong snipersSP5 James NewlinPublic domainWikimedia Commons
1st Battalion, 18th Infantry soldiers search Mac Dinh Chi Cemetery for Viet Cong snipersSP5 James NewlinPublic domainWikimedia Commons
1st Battalion, 18th Infantryman examines a French memorialSP5 James NewlinPublic domainWikimedia Commons
25th Infantry Division M113 in Mac Dinh Chi CemeterySP5 James NewlinPublic domainWikimedia Commons
A barbed wire barricade on the side of a street in Cholon after the Tet OffensivePH1 T.L. LawsonPublic domainWikimedia Commons
A deserted street in Saigon during the Tet fightingSP5 James NewlinPublic domainWikimedia Commons

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