Tet Offensive attack on US Embassy

Name: Tet Offensive attack on US Embassy
Start: 1968

1968 CE.

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On 31 January 1968, a 15-man Viet Cong (VC) sapper team attempted to seize the embassy of the United States in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, at the start of the VC's Tet Offensive. While the VC successfully penetrated the embassy compound, they were unable to enter the chancery building and were pinned down by security forces, with the three survivors eventually surrendering to US forces. Notwithstanding the attack's failure it had a profound political and psychological impact in the United States.

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