The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's...
136 KB (18,309 words) - 07:37, 5 November 2024
The Tet offensive attack on the United States embassy took place on the early morning of 31 January 1968, when a 19-man Viet Cong (VC) sapper team attempted...
21 KB (2,689 words) - 02:22, 10 October 2024
Vietnam War (section Tet Offensive and its aftermath)
forces, despite little progress. In 1968, North Vietnam launched the Tet Offensive; a tactical defeat, but a strategic victory, as it caused US domestic...
289 KB (29,992 words) - 21:56, 4 November 2024
1968 in the Vietnam War (section Tet Offensive)
January, the PAVN and VC launched the Tet Offensive. Hanoi erred monumentally in its certainty that the offensive would trigger a supportive uprising of...
120 KB (15,471 words) - 10:31, 30 August 2024
Viet Cong (section Tet Offensive)
Tet Offensive, an assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968, including an attack on the U.S. embassy in Saigon. The offensive riveted...
57 KB (6,151 words) - 22:59, 22 October 2024
events of the Vietnam War, most notably the Viet Cong attack during the Tet Offensive which helped turn American public opinion against the war, and the helicopter...
38 KB (4,524 words) - 07:16, 21 September 2024
Nang (29 January – 11 February 1968), were a series of attacks in the Tet Offensive launched by the North Vietnamese People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and...
70 KB (11,184 words) - 19:39, 15 September 2024
early 1968 Tet Offensive. Nevertheless, the US commander during the battle, General William Westmoreland, maintained that the true intention of Tet was to...
97 KB (13,148 words) - 02:24, 10 October 2024
Phase Two of the Tet Offensive of 1968 (also known as the May Offensive, Little Tet, and Mini-Tet) was launched by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN)...
36 KB (5,324 words) - 14:52, 20 September 2024
named Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968, in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. Nguyễn Văn Lém was a Viet Cong (VC) member. The Vice President Nguyễn...
31 KB (3,047 words) - 04:13, 9 October 2024
and NLF forces broke the truce that accompanied the Tết holiday and mounted their largest offensive thus far, in hopes of sparking a general uprising among...
128 KB (16,902 words) - 03:26, 26 October 2024
Tet or tet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tet or TET may refer to: Tết or Tết Nguyên Đán, the Vietnamese new year, Lunar new year Tet Offensive,...
2 KB (230 words) - 19:33, 1 June 2024
Massacre at Huế (category Tet Offensive)
massacre (Vietnamese: Thảm sát tại Huế Tết Mậu Thân, or Thảm sát Tết Mậu Thân ở Huế, lit. translation: "Tết Offensive massacre in Huế") was the summary executions...
58 KB (7,317 words) - 22:45, 29 September 2024
Saigon Execution (category Tet Offensive)
photograph by Associated Press photojournalist Eddie Adams, taken during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. It depicts South Vietnamese brigadier general Nguyễn...
19 KB (2,194 words) - 05:36, 5 October 2024
no opinion. Critical "failures to convey" occurred. During the 1968 Tet Offensive, the North Vietnamese government erred in its certainty that widespread...
44 KB (5,994 words) - 04:16, 27 October 2024
This first attempt by North Vietnam to invade the south since the Tet Offensive of 1968, became characterized by conventional infantry–armor assaults...
75 KB (10,517 words) - 05:11, 21 October 2024
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (section Tet Offensive)
forces by the end of the year; the bill had been blocked before the Tết Offensive. This increased South Vietnam's military to more than 900,000 men. Mobilization...
84 KB (10,093 words) - 10:51, 1 November 2024
Lyndon B. Johnson (section Tet Offensive)
Vietnamese Army began the Tet Offensive against South Vietnam's five largest cities, including Saigon. While the Tet Offensive failed militarily, it was...
195 KB (20,928 words) - 05:19, 5 November 2024
led the attack on Saigon during the Tet Offensive of 1968 and commanded the B2 Front during the Easter Offensive. During a 1974 meeting of North Vietnamese...
8 KB (657 words) - 10:02, 2 June 2024
Vietnamese Army began the Tet offensive against South Vietnam's five largest cities, including Saigon. While the Tet Offensive failed militarily, it was...
175 KB (19,692 words) - 01:40, 18 October 2024
Operation Tiger Hound, the Tet Offensive, Operation Commando Hunt, the Cambodian Campaign, Operation Lam Son 719, and the Easter Offensive. The unit was downsized...
64 KB (8,470 words) - 11:30, 14 October 2024
eventually diminished, especially after the Battle of Khe Sanh and the Tet Offensive in 1968. By the time he was reassigned as Army Chief of Staff, United...
65 KB (5,687 words) - 02:35, 2 November 2024
grew throughout Johnson's presidency, and especially after the 1968 Tet Offensive. Johnson was unsuccessful in his efforts to reach a peace agreement...
56 KB (6,388 words) - 18:29, 31 August 2024
Battle of Huế (category Tet Offensive)
of Huế (31 January 1968 – 2 March 1968), was a major battle in the Tết Offensive launched by North Vietnam and the Việt Cộng during the Vietnam War....
124 KB (15,682 words) - 14:18, 16 October 2024
Cao Văn Viên (section Role during Tet Offensive)
Tet Offensive of January 31, 1968. Fearing an attack during Tết (the Vietnamese New Year), Westmoreland had advised Viên to limit the traditional Tết...
78 KB (10,487 words) - 09:42, 20 September 2024
forces in South Vietnam, asked for help because of the all-out Communist Tet Offensive. The 27th Marine Regiment (27th Marines), 5th Marine Division, was airlifted...
22 KB (2,618 words) - 15:19, 6 October 2024
to fight. But, shortly thereafter, the North Vietnamese launched the Tet Offensive, in which they and Communist forces of Vietcong undertook simultaneous...
171 KB (13,790 words) - 20:51, 4 November 2024
Hoa.: 241–2 In the early morning of 31 January at the start of the Tet Offensive VC and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces hit the base with mortar...
53 KB (6,812 words) - 11:36, 31 August 2024
1968 in Phước Tuy province, South Vietnam. It occurred as part of the Tet Offensive, with large formations of Viet Cong troops attacking allied forces consisting...
11 KB (1,048 words) - 17:48, 13 June 2024
Operation Game Warden (section Tet Offensive)
the Rung Sat area. The performance of Game Warden units during the Tet Offensive in early 1968 helped save several of the South Vietnamese provincial...
19 KB (2,382 words) - 08:34, 20 September 2024