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 ...

A large section of rubble is all that remains in this one block square area of Saigon on Feb. 5, 1968. Source: AAP ...

As deafening explosions and rapid gunfire pierced the darkness surrounding the largest U.S. Army base in the former South ...

plus the New York Times and the Washington Post — decided to turn the major Communist Tet offensive against U.S. forces and South Vietnam on January 30, 1968, into an American defeat ...

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. - “I don’t want the interview today to be about me. I was a combat engineer, but I was not in the infantry,” explained Wayne ...

The Vietnam War was not the United States' bloodiest ... his own opposition to the conflict. In January 1968, during the Vietnamese New Year, Tet, the North Vietnamese launched a large offensive ...

The presidential election of 1968 was one of the most chaotic in ... But growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, unrest on college campuses, and urban rioting, made him vulnerable.

Bettmann/Corbis Inside the convention hall, delegates battled over the Vietnam War and ... As 1968 began, greater shocks awaited the nation: North Vietnamese forces launched the Tet offensive ...

He looks at the realism of urban and jungle warfare, such as the battle of Huế during the Tet ... (1968), starring John Wayne. Additionally, he discusses the tragedies and aftermath of the ...

Foreign tourists in Vietnam during Tet have been caught off guard by widespread business closures and limited transportation, as the country slows down to celebrate its biggest holiday of the year.