THE TET Offensive first came to the attention of the U.S. military in spectacular fashion hours after it began on the night of January 30, 1968, when 19 Vietnamese resistance fighters blew a hole ...

Taken during the North’s surprise Tet Offensive, Adams’ Feb. 1, 1968, photo showed the war’s brutality in a way Americans hadn’t seen before.

The Tet Offensive was launched on January 30, the first day of Vietnam’s Lunar New Year in 1968. More than 80,000 soldiers from the north and the Vietnam National Liberation Front (NLF) launched ...

North Vietnam’s Tet Offensive of 1968 involved terrorism on a grand scale. And while it was not on American soil, it was a calamity for the United States.

US and Vietnamese soldier ride on top of a tank in Saigon during the Tet Offensive. The attacks erupted before dawn on Jan. 30, 1968 and escalated to new levels of ferocity the next day.

On this day in 1968, communist forces launched their largest offensive of the Vietnam War against South Vietnamese and U.S. troops. An estimated 80,000 troops of the North Vietnamese Army and ...

The surprise military offensive in 1968 -- launched by the communist north on the eve of the Tet lunar new year -- targeted more than 100 cities and outposts in southern Vietnam.

A half-century after the Tet Offensive, the attack and its aftermath can still spark bitter divisions while providing an object lesson in the power of perception in the prosecution of modern warfare.

FILE - In this Feb. 1, 1968, file photo, South Vietnamese forces escort suspected Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem (also known as Bay Lop) on a Saigon street early in the Tet Offensive. Moments ...