Still holding his weapon.
The Tet Offensive was a series of battles in the Vietnam War. It
was a major offensive by the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong (VC or NLF) beginning on the night of
January 30-31, 1968, T?t Nguyên Ðán (the lunar new year day). It involved military action in almost every major
city in southern Vietnam and attacks on the US firebase at Khe Sanh. The NVA suffered a heavy military defeat but
scored a priceless propaganda victory.
The Communist forces had taken a series of military defeats. the
US/ARVN forces had pacified much of the south by the end of 1967 (222 out of 242 provinces). Operation Junction
City (February-March 1967) and other sweeps had seriously disrupted NLF activity in the south and forced the COSVN
into Cambodia.
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