Title: 1968 in the Vietnam War - Wikipedia
Headings: 1968 in the Vietnam War
1968 in the Vietnam War
Contents
January
1 January
2 January
3 January
4 January
5 January
8 January
9 January
10 January
12 January
18 January
19 January
20 January
21 January
20 January - 31 January 1969
21 January - 9 July
23 January
23-4 January
23 January - 12 February
24 January − 1 March
26 January
28 January
January - February 1973
Tet Offensive
29 January
29-30 January
30 January-4 February
30 January – 3 March
31 January
31 January – 7 March
February
1 February
2 February
6-7 February
7 February
8-9 February
10 February - 10 March
12 February
12 February - 3 March
13 February
14-5 February
16 February
18 February
19 February
23-6 February
24 February
25 February
27 February
28 February
March
March - November 1968
1 March
1-30 March
2 March
3-6 March
4 March
7 March - 7 August
10 March
10-11 March
11 March - 7 April
12 March
14 March
16 March
17 March
17 March - 31 January 1969
18 March - 17 May
24 March
26 March
30 March - 31 January 1969
31 March
April
1 April
1-14 April
2 April
8 April – 31 May
8 April - 11 November
10 April
15 April - 28 February 1969
19-26 April
19 April – 17 May
24 April
27 April
30 April – 3 May
May
3 May
4 May - 24 August
5 May
5-25 May
6 May
10 May
10-12 May
12 May – 6 June
13 May
13/4 May
17 May
17 May - 3 November
17 May - 28 February 1969
18 May
19 May - 23 October
23 May
25 May - 10 June
26-30 May
27 May
June
1 June - 16 February 1969
2 June
2-19 June
10 June
12 June
16-7 June
18 June
21 June
22 June
27-8 June
28-9 June
July
1 July
1-8 July
4 July
6 July
6-31 July
17 July
22 July
22-31 July
23 July
29 July
31 July
August
3 August - 30 November
4-20 August
17 August to 27 September
22-3 August
23-5 August
28 August
29 August - 7 September
September
4-24 September
5-7 September
8 September
10 September
10-29 September
11 September
13 September
25 September
28-30 September
30 September
30 September - 1 April 1969
October
1-19 October
3 October
8 October
16 October
20 October
22 October
23 October - 6 December
27 October
30 October
31 October
November
1 November
2 November
5 November
7 November - 4 April 1969
11 November
13 November
14 November
15 November - 29 March 1972
20 November - 9 December
25 November
26 November
26 November - 7 January 1969
28 November
December
December to 11 May 1969
3 December - 19 February 1969
12 December – 9 March 1969
15 December - 28 February 1969
Year in numbers
Annotations
References

Content: PAVN/VC troops throughout the South, from Hue to the Mekong Delta, attacked in force for the first time in the war, but to devastating cost as the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and American troops killed close to 37,000 of the ill-supported enemy in less than a month for losses of 3,700 and 7,600 respectively. These reversals on the battlefield (the VC would never again fight effectively as a cohesive force) failed to register on the American home front, however and fueled what would ultimately prove to be a propaganda victory for Hanoi. U.S. troop numbers peaked in 1968 with President Johnson approving an increased maximum number of U.S. troops in Vietnam at 549,500. The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam War with the American spending US$77.4 billion (US$ 569 billion in 2021) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 ARVN soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand PAVN/VC killed. The deadliest day of the Vietnam War for the U.S. was 31 January at the start of the Tet Offensive when 246 Americans were killed in action. Contents
1 January
1.1 Tet Offensive
2 February
3 March
4 April
5 May
6 June
7 July
8 August
9 September
10 October
11 November
12 December
13 Year in numbers
14 Annotations
15 References
January
1 January
The PAVN violated a New Year's truce. In the New Year's Day Battle of 1968 among the Americans were future writer Larry Heinemann and future film director Oliver Stone. In Newsweek magazine Robert Komer touted the early success of the Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS) pacification program he led. He said that "only one South Vietnamese in six now lives under VC [Viet Cong] control."