"Vietnam: 50 Years Remembered" Series - "The Tet Offensive" Complete Episode Four

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S1 E4 - "The Tet Offensive":
A truce normally marked the Lunar New Year (Tet), but in 1968, the NVA broke the truce in order to launch the largest battle of the war. The Tet Offensive by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, was one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched on January 30, 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies.
It was a campaign of surprise attacks against military and civilian command and control centers throughout South Vietnam. The offensive was a military defeat for North Vietnam though General Westmoreland reported that defeating the PAVN/VC would require 200,000 more American soldiers and activation of the reserves, prompting even loyal supporters of the war to see that the current war strategy required re-evaluation.
The history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam is told in this LionHeart FilmWorks original 7-part documentary series featuring personal stories from veterans and detailing the battles, strategy, and politics of a war that consumed multiple U.S. Presidents.
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@lesliemartin8669 4 ай бұрын

My Uncle James was in that War from Mid 1966 To April 1967.He was a helicopter door Gunner.He told me some crazy story's.My uncle is now 75 Years old.

@bradley-eblesisor 6 ай бұрын

Welcome home, to all Vietnam veterans and thank you and your families for your service and sacrifices! 💜

@toastnjam7384 5 ай бұрын

The mid 60's was the 50th anniversary of WW 1 and I thought that was so long ago and considered it ancient history. Now it 50 plus years since Vietnam. I'm sure young folks think of the Vietnam War as ancient history. USN 70-73 with two Nam deployments.

@jonhenson5450 4 ай бұрын

Very fair and reasonably accurate compared to most anglo-sphere productions. Thank you for not backstabbing and slandering the people who actually participated.

@jamesswidergal7875 4 ай бұрын

Thanks brothers.

@DrTWG 5 ай бұрын

Khe Sanh ain't gonna be no goddamn ' Deen Bean Foo ' - I believe LBJ said something similar - referring to the French nightmare at Dien Bien Phu courtesy of Gen Giap.

@letstalkaboutit8254 6 ай бұрын

Looking back it was a conflict this country should have kept their noses out of. A tremendous loss of life on both sides and in the end what was accomplished? Besides making millions for the armaments providers.

@cedricliggins7528 5 ай бұрын

The war prevented the spread of communism

@arrow2380 5 ай бұрын

That's USA in a nutshell

@kennethprice5628 4 ай бұрын

Nothing😢

@Ktaurus26 3 ай бұрын

And now the United States has done the same thing in Ukraine minus Americans troops for now

@rudolphguarnacci197 3 ай бұрын

Captain Obvious is in the room.

@stephenolson532 6 ай бұрын

LBJ made millions on the graves of 10's 1,000's of people

@miltonhollis703 4 ай бұрын

That's why John F. Kennedy was bumped off...because John Fitzgerald Kennedy said A war with Vietnam WAS UNWINNABLE.....LBJ escalated The Vietnam war...

@JoeBilello1969 Ай бұрын

ABSOLUTELY TRUE!!! That demon was probably one of the worst blatant criminal presidents this country has ever had the misfortune of having in office, I utterly laugh ironically of course when I think of what was done to poor Richard Nixon in comparison to the crimes that should've put Johnson in prison for life!!! Johnson was basically a crime boss responsible for countless murders and these are well-known facts!!!

@CuttingEdgetools 2 ай бұрын

LBJ and most of the politicians and Media were scoundrels. Just like Today. Our Soldiers as a whole were loyal and heroic. I was a couple years shy of getting called up. I love our VN vets. Many of my cousins and friends are VN Veterans. Never forget their sacrifices ❤️🇺🇸 Our Nation needs to take care of our crumbling society and infrastructure and stop the border invasion.

@asdf9890 6 ай бұрын

What a mess. No wonder my mother who graduated ‘67, always said she was going to move me to Canada every time something broke out when I was a teen. Start of Desert Storm had her stressing. This war impacted many for life, even if they didn’t serve. I have so much respect for the vets of this war, BS from all sides. I saw many seeming to struggle with life when I was a kid. Many of those guys were getting into their 40s then.

@leonleon2276 6 ай бұрын

No one cares about your mother…but you.

@andrewpascoe8655 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for serving in Vietnam. I am proud of you Patriots.

@MomentsInTrading 4 ай бұрын

@24:52 The Vietnam War was not the first time helicopters were used to transport wounded soldiers, the Korean War was. Shockingly odd mistake. I mean- What about MASH? 😂

@walterkreuzman3802 3 ай бұрын

Actually it was first used in Burma during WW@

@lancecahill5486 6 ай бұрын

The North Vietnamese communists were expecting that South Vietnamese would rise up and overthrow their government but that never happened. Instead, the ARVN along with American forces fought gallantly against the invasion force, and, in the process, destroyed the undercover communist organization and militia, which were painstakingly built by the North over the years. As a matter of fact, after 1968, most of the heavy fighting was done by the regular North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong ceased to be an effective military force. At the end, the Tet Offensive was a military failure for the North, but it was a major political victory as the support from the American people for the war began a steep decline that was never recovered.

@hiennguyenvan6615 6 ай бұрын

Thật nực cười khi những kẻ diệt chủng người da đỏ bắc mỹ lại đi rao giảng về " tự do, dân chủ" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Và Việt Nam đã cho bọn chúng biết không phải lúc nào bọn chúng cũng có thể thực hiện thành công ý tưởng xấu xa của bọn chúng.

@chloeew4627 5 ай бұрын

Afghanistan.

@JustComplyGeorgeFloyd 4 ай бұрын

thanks professor

@frereanaktom99 3 ай бұрын

My Brother-in Law was a NVA conscript. If he got injured he would be lucky to get medical attention His family didn't even know where he was. The USA put all that money and western sophistication and still had to run away in 1973. Leaving their south vietnamese puppets to suffer. Sounds familiar? Afghanistan?

@user-wy1dl2me2p 2 ай бұрын

They were a worthless population who didn't want to or couldn't defend their pathetic country being south Vietnam no balls .

@whereisyourfaith1454 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. I remember my family and i seeing these pics on the nightly news back then. Who knew you couldn't trust the reporters like Walter Cronkite, et al, to be telling us the truth about what was going on? Hope LBJ likes it hot for eternity for all the wrong he did for so many years in so many ways.

@johnhanson5943 6 ай бұрын

The same gnostic cult of Oligarchic still rule. Now they’re far more powerful. Research Rockefeller / Kissinger / Davos, et al.

@eddiesharrone8106 2 ай бұрын

I wonder how satellites and drones would have swayed the war in Vietnam? Seems like they had no idea where, who or how many people they were fighting.

@user-wy1dl2me2p 2 ай бұрын

Very true

@GlobalDrifter1000 4 ай бұрын

Both Ho Chi Minh and Gen. Giáp were both strongly against the Tet Offensive. Perhaps the guy who wrote they should read a book.

@jonhenson5450 4 ай бұрын

Good point, Le Dong (southern native) was the prime influencer for aggressive operations.

@HENDRIX2099 6 ай бұрын

War by design, just enough to keep the line on the map.

@kendallevans4079 5 ай бұрын

Like Korea!

@alexciocca4451 5 ай бұрын

Better off forgetting why America did this

@user-zx5fo5xx3o 3 ай бұрын

lotta money made, lotta lives paid

@yenzeinc 6 ай бұрын

No more war pls

@hughsmith7668 6 ай бұрын

Stop voting Democrat

@dariusweezer2 6 ай бұрын

Korea was the first war to use helicopters to remove the wounded

@walterkreuzman3802 3 ай бұрын

Actually it was first used in Burma during WW2

@grumpymf8913 3 ай бұрын

We had already established a blockade in Cuba, why was LBJ so afraid to do the same thing to North Vietnam is beyond me. Stopping supplies entering the country would have minimized the value and success of the Ho Chi Minh trail.

@johnzec1389 3 ай бұрын

Read a door gunner's memoir of those days. "One February Morning". February. '68 to May '69.

@ToyotaPete 6 ай бұрын

👍

@danielarchambeault-may5162 5 ай бұрын

It all comes down to who could replace loses. PAVN and VC were showing constantly increasing numbers of people joining, while ARVN was facing desertion en masse. And in the meantime, the US had to lower enlistment standards ("Mcnamara's Morons") and pulling pilots out of retirement. It's not how many people die, it's how easily they're replaced.

@robertmartinez4174 18 күн бұрын

president Johnson started the American war and when things became too hot for him he split.

@LTXsp 5 ай бұрын

It's not what you think....

@user-wy1dl2me2p 2 ай бұрын

Walter cronkite should have been lost behind enemy lines courtesy of our special forces

@walterkreuzman3802 3 ай бұрын

Vietnam was not the first to use helicopters to transport troops or evac wounded troups. First time was in Burma i believe in 1942? Then Korea... Remember MASH.

@duaneelliott5194 6 ай бұрын

14:50 They were winning the war.

@paddy.7784 5 ай бұрын

Agree. Vietnam vets never got the kudos they deserved.

@slidingdoor9055 4 ай бұрын

I stopped watching at 22 minutes. That square in the screen center ruined the footage.

@nickoliver9539 2 ай бұрын

It kept him in office Going to war at that time In nam

@mackenziedog1872 3 ай бұрын

1966 age 5 "Mom's in the kitchen making bread and jam. Dad's in the toilet bombing Vietnam." Age 7 I was dragged to the babour for a haircut. I've only ever had it cut by violence. What makes WASPs (White Anglosaxon Protestants) think they are so goddamned superior? 50 years got some more facts released about this. LBJ v Kennedy had it's 50 year silence extended. The English put their mother nature on life support. A few will survive to grow food. Our old ways didn't work( "From each according to their ability to each according to their needs"- Welsh communist coal mine mom. Nothing's changed but the weather.

@allandavis8201 4 ай бұрын

Putting aside the politics of the Vietnam war and only looking at the military actions I think 💭 that the Allied/ARVN forces were very much on a hiding to nothing, that isn’t to say that they were not fine soldiers or they didn’t do what they were asked to do, it was just that the NVA/VC fought an unconventional war, hit and run, jungle warfare and sabotage tactics, something the allied forces were ill suited or trained for, the Tet Offensive was a major departure from their usual tactics and it proved to be a huge mistake, whilst they could probably claim a victory in terms of the destruction and numbers killed they certainly couldn’t claim to have achieved anything other than that, they lost more of their combat forces because they didn’t care about their own survival, they were far more prepared to sustain losses than the allied forces, not least because of the ground swell of opposition that occurred in the USA and other allied countries, all in all the South Vietnam forces and allied armies were never going to achieve the victory that they wanted, and if that had been realised, or should that be, acknowledged, then the number of casualties on both sides could have been far less. At the end of the day the long bloody and wasteful war in Vietnam should never have been fought, but that was a political decision, a decision that unfortunately was wrong. Lest We Forget. R.I.P all those who fought and died in honouring their countries call to arms, I also salute all those who were there, not necessarily in combat, in ALL positions. Per Ardua Ad Astra. P.S In my opinion the general population of the USA should be ashamed of the treatment of service personnel returning from Vietnam, the verbal and physical abuse they endured was something I never thought would happen to United States personnel, not that many years before the Vietnam war the armed forces of the USA were hailed as conquering heroes, WWII and Korean War personnel were welcomed home with parades and celebrations, but not the Vietnam war personnel, it was almost as if the country was ashamed of them and treated them like war criminals, yet all they did was to serve their country and did their duty, where was the vilification of the political leaders?, the top brass? and the cowards that refused to serve citing “anti war” principles? Or got “deferments” based on bogus “medical evidence” or educational grounds, and worst of all those who left the country completely, why didn’t they stay and stand up for their so called “principles”, obviously not all the anti-war/conscientious objectors were cowards and did stand up for their beliefs, but many were, and yet they got away with it.