The 1968 Tet offensive is referred to as the turning point in the Vietnam War. Of the many battles of Tet, the attack on the American Embassy in Saigon stands out. It is neither the battle s size nor its casualties that makes it important. The significance of the embassy attack lay in...
January 1968: The Tet Offensive begins A series of widespread and coordinated assaults on South Vietnamese cities by North Vietnam and the NLF, the Tet Offensive was a turning point in the war, marking an end to the American narrative that the war would wrap up quickly. North Vietnam and...
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In January 1968, the hospital was in the path ofthe Tet Offensive, a major military campaign by Vietnamese forces. Some hospital wards at the 71st were closed because "it was felt that we were in too dangerous of an area to keep very many wounded" soldiers, Wells said. Meanwhile, Well...
On February 2, 1968, during the height of the Tet Offensive, Maxam’s unit was engagedin brutal combat at a critical defensive outpost at Cam Lo. The enemy launched a fierce and unrelenting assault, bombarding their position with mortar fire and overwhelming waves of attackers. As the chaos ...
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Cong were. The very term "Taliban" is a misnomer. It is used to describe loosely affiliated bands of insurgents who have no unified command structure of the kind that Hanoi imposed on its forces. Thus there is little danger of coordinated, countrywide attacks like the 1968 Tet Offensive. ...
The Freedom Rides were an early example of the way in which television could amplify the effects of social protest, just as images from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma in 1965 or battle scenes from the 1968 Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War would shift public opinion in the years to ...