Bob Perkins had barely cleared the chopper’s blades when he was scrambled into action: “We were told to grab equipment and gear from piles – ammo clips, canteens – stuff we figured belonged to guys ...

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, ...

Fifty years ago, the Vietnamese resistance turned the tide against the American war effort, with profound implications back in the U.S., writes Eric Ruder, in the next article in SocialistWorker.org's ...

Just a few miles from the demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam in February of 1968, Army Private First Class Tom Hagel didn’t know that CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite had ...

A.J. Langguth is a professor at USC's Annenberg School for Communication and author of "Our Vietnam." We have heard a lot lately about similarities between the attacks of Sept. 11 and the Japanese ...

Relive the intensity of 1968, the deadliest year of the Vietnam War, marked by the Tet Offensive. This video explores the ...

FORT LEAVENWORTH--Dr. Gates Brown, Command and General Staff College history assistant professor, delivered a presentation entitled "The Tet Offensive, 1968: The Turning Point of the Vietnam War" at ...

At dawn on Jan. 31, 1968, South Vietnam was rocked by attacks throughout the country by Viet Cong (VC), the communist guerrilla military force attempting to overthrow the government of South Vietnam.

Fifty years ago, North Vietnamese Communist attacks on South Vietnam's towns and cities, launched at the end of January 1968, were a tragedy for South Vietnam. The Tet Offensive that raged in the ...

Submitted photo — Retired Lt. Col. Tyrus Cobb spoke the local Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) about his experience as the senior adviser to the South Vietnamese during the 1968 Tet ...

Sometime within the next six months or so, al Qaeda or Saddamist terrorists will attempt a Tet offensive. No, Middle Eastern mass murderers don't celebrate the Vietnamese festival of Tet, but trust ...

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