The Tet observation began on January 30, 1968, but after midnight the country began to erupt in gunfire. At 0300 hours (3:00 AM) on January 31, the NVA and VC launched simultaneous attacks on military ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Feb. 3, 1968, I was sitting on the banks of a muddy river in the village of Thanh Canh, or as we called it, Tin Can. I never learned the name of the stream. Reflecting on that time, Tet 1968, I see ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Announcer: In Vietnam, the Tet Offensive, the Battle of Ka-San, the peace talks, and the bombing halt, captured the headlines during 1968. The fighting in the streets of Saigon during the New Year or ...

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 ...