On January 30, 1968, the Viet Cong launched a coordinated assault with the North Vietnamese Army that changed the course of the Vietnam War. Although the Tet Offensive was a battlefield failure for ...

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Saigon, South Vietnam, May 10, 1968: Refugees flee burning buildings near Tan Son Nhut air base. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces started shelling more than 120 provincial capitals, towns and ...

EDITOR’S NOTE — Early on the morning of Jan. 31, 1968, as Vietnamese celebrated the Lunar New Year, or Tet as it is known locally, Communist forces launched a wave of coordinated surprise attacks ...

In the final hours of January 1968, the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army launched a massive offensive across South Vietnam. The Tet Offensive failed to hold territory or spark a general uprising, ...

A new dragon statue guards the Citadel in Hue, seized by northern forces during the 1968 Tet Offensive but then recaptured in some of the fiercest combat of the Vietnam War. Binh Dang A few years ago, ...

A North American F-100D Super Sabre drops a napalm bomb near Bien Hoa, South Vietnam, 1967. U.S. Air Force Plunging to make a Mekong Delta strafing run, the pilot of a North American F-100D Super ...

WASHINGTON - Before he pulls the trigger, the South Vietnamese general waves his soldiers out of the way so they don't get hurt. South Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan, right, chief of the national ...

CROSBY — Steve Wenzel will speak about Vietnam and the 1968 presidential election at 1:30 p.m. April 14 at Unlimited Learning in Crosby. Wenzel will cover the history of the Vietnam War, its roots in ...

On Feb. 1, 1968, during the Vietnam War, South Vietnam's police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured by news photographers. It was ...