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Headings: 1968 in the Vietnam War
1968 in the Vietnam War
Contents
January
January 1
January 23–24, 1968
January 24 − March 1
January 21 – April 8
Tet Offensive
January 30
January 31 – March 7
January 30 – March 3
February 1, 1968
February
February 1
February 6 - February 7
February 7
February 18
February 27
March
March 10 – March 11
March 16
March 31
March 31
April
April 3 - 7th
April 8 - May 31
April 19 - May 17
May
May 5
May 10–12, 1968
May 12 – June 6
May 13
October
October 8
October 31
November
November 1
November 5
December
December 1968 to May 11, 1969
December 12, 1968 – March 9, 1969
Year in numbers
Annotations
Bibliography
Notes
References

Content: At the end of January, the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong launched the Tet Offensive. Although militarily the operation was a failure for the Vietnamese communists, for them it was a propaganda victory, as on the home front the American public were shocked by the images they were seeing on their televisions. Reflecting this public outrage the media made a number of iconic news stories including Peter Arnett quoting an unnamed US major as saying, "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." Eddie Adams ' iconic image of South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan 's live execution of a Vietcong operative was taken in 1968 as was Walter Cronkite 's call to honourably exit Vietnam because he thought the war was lost. This negative impression forced the Americans into the Paris peace talks with North Vietnam. US troop numbers peaked in 1968 with President Johnson approving the raising of the maximum number of Americans in Vietnam to 549,500. The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam war with the American spending US$77.4 billion (US$ 525 billion in 2021) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 South Vietnamese ( ARVN) soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand of the communist forces killed. The deadliest week of the Vietnam War for the USA was during the Tet Offensive specifically February 11–17, 1968, during which period 543 Americans were killed in action, and 2547 were wounded. Contents
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January
1.1
Tet Offensive
2
February
3
March
4
April
5
May
6
October
7
November
8
December
9
Year in numbers
10
Annotations
11
Bibliography
January
Oliver Stone was an American soldier in 1968
January 1
Vietnamese violate New Year's truce during the New Years Day Battle of 1968.