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17 unusual facts about Tet Offensive


Bến Củi

The fighting in the Bến Củi rubber plantation is sometimes referred to as the Third Offensive, in reference to the third wave of massed North Vietnamese troops after the Tet Offensive.

Buddhist temples in Huế

During 1968, the pagoda was heavily damaged during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War, some of which remains unrepaired.

Charles C. Carson

Examples of his involvement in disasters in Southeast Asia are the naval disasters aboard the USS Oriskany in 1966, the USS Forrestal in 1967 and the Vietnam Tet Offensive.

Frank Palmos

He was the sole survivor of a Viet Cong ambush of five western war correspondents in Cholon on 5 May 1968 during the second Tet Offensive.

Henry Casselli

He was assigned the position of combat artist, and upon his deployment found himself immersed in the Tet Offensive of 1968.

John Balaban

During the Vietnam War, Balaban was a conscientious objector; He went to Vietnam with the International Volunteer Services where he taught at a university until it was bombed in the Tet Offensive.

Larry Wilcox

Wilcox joined the Marines in May 1967 and served 13 months in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive.

Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays

Soon, the babies riot, an event referred to in the news as the "Tot Offensive".

Max Soliven

Spending more than twelve years as a foreign correspondent, Soliven traveled to many of the notable global hotspots during the 1960s, such as the Vietnam War and the 1968 Tet Offensive therein; and the Gestapu Coup in Indonesia in 1965, in which half a million people were massacred.

Murray Fromson

In early 1968, while reporting the Vietnam War for CBS News, Fromson was injured by rocket fire, during the battle for Khe Sanh following the Tet Offensive.

Phú Thọ Horse Racing Ground

It was the location of a major battle between the Viet Cong and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Tet Offensive.

Quảng Trị

During the Vietnam War, when the province was the South's border with North Vietnam, it suffered a major attack in the January 1968 Tet Offensive and it was the only South Vietnamese provincial capital to be captured by the North Vietnamese forces for a limited period in the 1972 Offensive.

Saigon Bridge

It is one of the most vital gateways for vehicles traveling from northern and central Vietnam to the city, and therefore was a key point of contention during the Tet Offensive in 1968 and the Fall of Saigon in 1975.

Sihanouk Trail

As had occurred at the end of the 1968 Tet Offensive, the North Vietnamese logistical network was improved and expanded in the wake of the incursion.

The 'Nam

The events depicted are sometimes famous ones, such as the Tet Offensive of 1968, and sometimes more personal ones, depicting the interaction between soldiers or between soldiers and the local populace of Vietnam, or between soldiers and their families, friends and others in the United States.

Từ Đàm Pagoda

During 1968, the pagoda was heavily damaged during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War, some of which still remains unrepaired.

Vietnamese calendar

As a result of the shift, North and South Vietnam celebrated Tết 1968 on different days.


3rd Tank Battalion

They participated in combat actions against communist forces during the Tet Offensive of 1968, and during the re-taking of the city of Huế, and the siege of Khe Sanh during that same enemy offensive.

Battle of Huế

With the beginning of the Tet Offensive on January 30, 1968, the Vietnamese lunar New Year (Vietnamese: Tết Nguyên Đán) large conventional American forces had been committed to combat upon Vietnamese soil for almost three years.

In Pharaoh's Army

Wolff was stationed with South Vietnamese Army soldiers near Mỹ Tho and he was present during the Communists' Tet Offensive.

Mỹ Tho

Mỹ Tho was the subject of "The Lesson", a chapter in a memoir by Tobias Wolff, In Pharoah's Army: Memories of the Lost War, describing the events of the 1968 Tet Offensive there.