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Tet Offensive: Still Images
The images listed below are photographs from individual soldiers, military photographers and others who have donated their photographs to the Vietnam Archive. The photographs for the most part are from the Vietnam War era and can be a good tool for visualizing the events of the war related through our documents or oral history interviews.
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Hue
Item #: VA000099 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Victory At Hue - Vietnamese soldiers celebrate their victory over the North Vietnamese invaders of Hue with the raising of their national colors on the 200-foot flag pole from which a Viet Cong flag had flown for the 24 days of battle. In clouds of colored smoke from grenades placed at the base of t... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000429 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Hue damage after Viet Cong attack (68-0128-B) (open complete record)
Item #: VA000583 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Hue damage after Viet Cong attack (open complete record)
Item #: VA000974 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Victory At Hue - Vietnamese soldiers celebrate their victory over the North Vietnamese invaders of Hue with the raising of their national colors on the 200-foot flag pole from which a Viet Cong flag had flown for the 24 days of the battle.
Exuberant soldiers unfurl their national colors on... (open complete record)
Item #: VA001625 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Civilians run to escape enemy fire during the 26-day battle for Hue Citadel. (open complete record)
Item #: VA001674 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- As South Vietnamese and allied military units drove invading North Vietnamese out of the southern half of Hue during the recent battle for the old imperial capital of Vietnam, thousands of refugees fled from communist-controlled areas of the city. ; Hundreds of them risked sniper and machine gun fir... (open complete record)
Item #: VA001694 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Refugees crossing the Perfume River at Truong Thien Bridge outside of Hue. (open complete record)
Item #: VA003771 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN forces and civilians aid a women wounded in Hue during the Communist TET offensive in the imperial city. Hundreds of thousands of civilians were killed, wounded, crippled, or left homeless in the communist so-called 'liberation' movement (68-0098-D) (open complete record)
Item #: VA006823 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- A stern-faced U.S. Marine fashions the flag of his country to make a shirt staff in preparation to hoist it over the citadel in the Imperial city of Hue following 24 days of continuous battle for the prized objective during the Tet offensive by communist forces. (68-0117-E) (open complete record)
Item #: VA006864 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- A U.S. Marine machine gunner fires on communists positions across the Perfume River in the imperial city of Hue as the Marines rout the Viet Cong from their strongholds of the citadel during the Tet offensive (open complete record)
Item #: VA006865 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- While a grenadier team softens communists positions in the Imperial city of Hue, a small puppy huddles in the protective arms of a Marine waiting to move forward. The fighting followed the VC offensive during the Tet holiday period. (open complete record)
Item #: VA009586 - Barry Brown Collection
- Citadel Hue City Feb. '68 (open complete record)
Item #: VA020950 - Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons Collection
- (117) After the Battle - 'A'Co., First Battalion, First Regiment Marines leave church after successfully capturing if from North Vietnamese control during one of the bloody battles taking place in Hue. 3D-4-211-68 3rdMarDiv [3rd Marine Division] Vietnam 9Feb68 Photog: Sgt B.A. Atwell Defense Dept.... (open complete record)
Item #: VA035288 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- 3M-6-273-68 IIIMAF Vietnam 20Feb68 Photog: Lt Cummins Walter Cronkite and CBS Camera Crew use jeep for dolly, during interview with Commanding Officer of First Battalion, First Marine Regiment during battle of Hue City. Defense Dept. Photo (Marine Corps) fhm Ai90589 (open complete record)
Item #: VA035396 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- '3M-14-1012-68 Third MarDiv Vietnam 24June68 Photog: Nairns Aerial view of Hue City. Defense Dept. Photo ( Marine Corps) mee A801129 2nd caption also by department of Defense (Marine Corps) Hue: Aftermath (June 1968) Bridge still down but much else rebuilt. MACV compond is in lower left corner, C... (open complete record)
Hue Massacre
Item #: VA002284 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Hue 'Death March' Victims Found at New Atrocity Site: ; Thua Thien Province officials believe that the communists staged a death march with 250 victims whose remains were recently discovered in yet another mass grave near Hue. Seeking identities officials found witnesses who were Hoi Chanh, former V... (open complete record)
Item #: VA003072 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Honors For German Victims of VC - Vietnamese Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Tang Kim Dong, pins the Vietnamese Order of Merit on the caskets of four German civilian medical personnel murdered at Hue by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army during their February TET offensive. The cer... (open complete record)
Item #: VA003073 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Banners noting commemoration of the victims of the Tet Offensive in Hue on 20 February 1968 behind a memorial flanked by two traditionally uniformed soldiers. (open complete record)
Item #: VA003091 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu flanked by a military aide placing flowers before an outdoor altar. (open complete record)
Item #: VA003094 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Two exhumed bodies of Tet Offensive victims with hands bound. -- 68-1942-B
'Two of over 70 bodies exhumed from mass shall graves in the year of Gia Goi primary school show hands still tied as they were when assassinated three weeks prior during the TET offensive to 'liberate' the imperial c... (open complete record)
Item #: VA003098 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Photo 1: The small cloth-wrapped packages on these schoolroom desks contain the skeletons of South Vietnamese civilians murdered by the Communists in 1968 and just discovered April 6, 1971 in shallow graves near Trung Thien hamlet, 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Hue.'
Shrouded remains of... (open complete record)
Item #: VA003101 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- A woman lights joss sticks near shrouded remains of Tet Offensive victims. (open complete record)
Item #: VA003105 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- HILLSIDE SERVICES – More than 15,000 persons attended services and burial rites held October 14 for 400 more victims massacred during the Hue ‘Tet’ Offensive in February 1968. (69-10-0049-D / 1950 D) For a third time since the Communist siege of Hue, in South Vietnam, during 'Tet 1968,' its ... (open complete record)
Item #: VA003108 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Hue Mourns Victims of 'Tet 68' Massacre a Third Time To Remember Again - An elderly couple mourns a third time for the people of Hue who were massacred by the Viet Cong at "Tet 1968." Umbrellas are used as sunshades. For a third time since the Communist siege of Hue, in South Vietnam, during 'Tet 1... (open complete record)
Item #: VA006895 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Hue -- Volunteer Civil Defense workers unload some of the 136 bodies of Viet Cong hostages recently found along the sandy beaches south of Hue. The hostages/victims were captured during the 1968 Tet Offensive. Survivors reported that they were marched south of Hue toward Danang, shot and dumped int... (open complete record)
Saigon
Item #: VA000027 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- February 15, 1968 - VN Consl. 68-0054-B - Saigon Ruins Removed To Make Way For Rebuilding Bull-dozers, front loaders, trucks and a working people looking to the future work feverishly to remove the rubble of Saigon's damaged areas following premeditated TET offensive by the Viet Cong as the popu... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000399 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Vietnamese soldiers trudge past a grieving mother praying for daughter and daughter-in-law in their coffins. Both were killed during heavy fighting between ARVN troops and Viet Cong as the Viet Cong attacked An Nhon hamlet in Go Vap District, Gia Dinh Province. At the same time others were strikin... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000400 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN Forces Inflict Heavy Casualties on NVA Invaders - Gia Dinh - A large force of North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops infiltrated Go Vap in Gia Dinh Province, some three miles northeast of the Presidential Palace in Saigon on May 31. A combined force of Vietnam marines, Airborne infantry, Regional ... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000404 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Aerial view of Saigon ruins following TET offensive to 'liberate' the city. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000406 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Vietnamese paratroopers cautiously move down alleyway as they advance on Viet Cong positions routing the enemy in the Phu Nhuan section of the capital city. The fierce battle ensued as the Viet Cong attacked during the early morning hours of January 31, 1968, the festive TET holiday period for the ... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000409 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN paratroopers check the bodies for intelligence material of Viet Cong killed during an unsuccessful attempt to take the capital city in a premeditated attack during the festive TET period, January 31, 1968. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000415 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- The child sleeps peacefully without the understanding of its present surroundings. Family members, with grim faces eat meal of rice in government refugee center. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000418 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- PM Nguyen Van Loc assures the people of District Eight in Saigon of the Government's support in rebuilding their homes and lives following the Viet Cong attacks during the Tet truce period. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000421 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN Forces Inflict Heavy Casualties On NVA Invaders - Gia Dinh - A large force of North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops infiltrated Go Vap in Gia Dinh Province, some three miles northeast of the Presidential Palace in Saigon on May 31. A combined force of Government of Vietnam Marines, Airborne infan... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000435 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- National Police and ARVN Soldiers Join To Secure Saigon From Viet Cong - At a check point in Saigon, Vietnamese Army soldiers and members of the National Police Force check young male Vietnamese for identification in their city-wide search for Viet Cong. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000463 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- SELF-HELP -- Girl guides in Saigon, accept a donation from a pretty Vietnamese girl for the relief of victims of the recent Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army TET offensive. Thousands of Girl Guides and volunteers from other women's organizations, are currently conducting the TET offensive Relief D... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000469 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN Forces Inflict Heavy Casualties on NVA Invaders - Blinded by the blast of a NVA B40 rocket, a Vietnamese marine receives first aid from a Marine medic. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000482 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Viet Cong Rocket Attacks Kill Many Saigon Civilians - The Binh Dan Hospital in Saigon took a direct hit during the Communist rocket attack on June 11. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000489 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Viet Cong attack on GVN Television Station Fails - A Viet Cong terrorist set off an unknown size explosive charge near the Vietnamese television complex in Saigon on May 5, that killed three Vietnamese and injured scores of other civilians. The explosion failed to put the television station out of ... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000527 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- A road sign that once pointed the way to the Capital city, lies among the rubble following attacks by the Viet Cong in Can Tho during the premeditated TET offensive designed so-called by the Viet Cong as a 'liberation' left thousands homeless. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000585 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Vietnamese Marines fight communist infiltrators in Gia Dinh. ARVN marines advance toward dug in Viet Cong troops in Gia Dinh three miles northeast of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, June 5, 1968. The combat-hardened Marines carry gas masks. The tank in the background suffered some damage the p... (open complete record)
Item #: VA001620 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Water for cooking and drinking is passed out at a refugee center to government troops. The refugees, made homeless during attacks by the Viet Cong as the Republic celebrated the TET (new year-- the year of the monkey) are being cared for by the government of Vietnam in government and public building... (open complete record)
Item #: VA001661 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Rice, made available to refugees at the centers by the Vietnamese government is distributed according to the size of the family. Thousands of refugees have been cared for in government and public building as temporary quarters following attacks by the Viet Cong that burned their home during the TET ... (open complete record)
Item #: VA002600 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- 'Scenes' (VN) Miscellaneous; APC, of the VN army, patrol Saigon's streets in search for VC. (open complete record)
Item #: VA003118 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Prime Minister Nguyen Van Loc and entourage walking through wreckage of Saigon's 8th District. (open complete record)
Item #: VA029984 - Bryan Grigsby Collection (Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO))
- 6 May 1968 - Photo by SP4 Bryan Grigsby (DASPO) - ARVN medics carry the body of a dead South Vietnamese officer from the French National Cemetery where a firefight was taking place. This action was part of what later became known as the Post-Tet Offensive of the May Offensive of 1968. (open complete record)
Item #: VA035205 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- cc 45831 Republic of Vietnam Members of Co A, 30th Ranger Bn, maintain radio contact as they move in against Viet Cong terrorist near Saigon during the Lunar New Year Holiday. 31 January 1968 Photo by Sp5 James Newlin 22st Sig Co (pic) US Army Photograph (open complete record)
Cholon
Item #: VA000403 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- An ARVN soldier fires at Viet Cong positions in Cholon during the unsuccessful TET offensive by the Viet Cong to control Capital city and surrounding areas. 68-0088-A (open complete record)
Item #: VA000412 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Aftermath Of Viet Cong Attack On Saigon - January 31, 1968 - Searching for family members among the rubble of a two-block area of Cholon section that was leveled during the Viet Cong attack on 31 January 1968. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000420 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- A pall of smoke hangs over the residential section of Cholon as hundreds of homes are consumed by fires resulting from the fighting between South Vietnamese Government troops and Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars. (68-0082-B) (open complete record)
Item #: VA000422 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Vietnamese Troops Eject Communist Infiltrators From Saigon Area - Typical of the area which the Vietnamese troops had to clear of NVA and Viet Cong infiltrators, is this narrow, shanty0lined alleyway in Phu Lam, Cholon. Each structure had to be searched by these Rangers. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000453 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- A refugee mother and daughter with meager belongings hastily assembled, cautiously make their way along bullet splattered street during heavy fighting in the Cholon area. The Viet Cong attacks beginning January 31, 1968 throughout the Republic left thousands of Vietnamese civilians homeless and are... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000473 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN Troops Flush NVA Viet Cong Infiltrators From Saigon Area - A military policeman of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) carries an elderly woman to safety during fighting in the Cholon section of Saigon (June 1, 1968) between Government troops and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) and Viet Cong... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000586 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- GVN Forces Successfully Defend Saigon During Communist May Offensive ARVN Airborne soldiers fighting in the Cholon section of Saigon on May 5, during the first day of the Communists' May Offensive. (68-0248-K) (open complete record)
Item #: VA002596 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- 'Combat Scenes' (VN), Action: ; Helicopters bearing reinforcements, and supplies for units in the Phu Tho race track area, of Cholon. (open complete record)
Item #: VA006836 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Bodies of Viet Cong lie in front of service station they had used as daytime resting positions for raids in the hours of darkness in the Cholon section during the Tet offensive by the VC. (open complete record)
Tan Son Nhut
Item #: VA000046 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- The 1968 Tet offensive dealt a severe blow to Vietnam's textile industry, causing about US$30 million in damage. This storeroom for spare parts was completely demolished at Vinatexco's Gia Dinh plant. It has been rebuilt. (TCB-071 Photo Six, March 1970.) (open complete record)
Item #: VA000402 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN soldiers take an earned break on the roadside following fierce fighting in the Tan Son Nhut area after securing objective. The engagement began as Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers attacked the capital city during the festive TET holiday period. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000407 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Attack on Saigon 31 January 1968 - A machine gun team of Vietnamese paratroopers in action near rail line one-half mile northeast of Ton San Nhut. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000437 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Attack On Saigon, 31 January 1968 - A wounded Vietnamese paratrooper is hasty moved to a position where aid can be administered during heavy fighting one kilometer northeast of Tan Son Nhut. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000443 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Viet Cong Attack On Saigon - January 31, 1968 - Troopers of the 8th Vietnamese Airborne Battalion fire M79 grenade launchers and small arms during heavy fighting with the Viet Cong in a cemetery one-half mile northeast of Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airfield. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000445 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Vietnamese paratroopers systematically advance onto Viet Cong position near Tan Son Nhut as heavy fighting erupted during attacks on the capital city during the TET (new year - The year of the Monkey) holiday period. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000451 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Paratroopers of the 8th Vietnamese Airborne Battalion advance on Viet Cong positions one-half mile northeast of Tan Son Nhut. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000486 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Viet Cong Attack Saigon Area During 'TET' season - Bodies of Viet Cong are strewn along the wire fence surrounding Tan Son Nhut airfield following the abortive attempt to take the installation during the night of January 31. (open complete record)
Item #: VA030797 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-56/AGA68 RVN Saigon Viet Cong dead after an attack on the perimeter of Tan Son Nhut Air Base. 1 Feb. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030800 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-57/AGA68 RVN Saigon Viet Cong dead after an attack on the perimeter of Tan Son Nhut Air Base. 1 Feb. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA045500 - Anthony G. Borra Collection
- Control Tower at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Saigon after the Tet Offensive. (open complete record)
Item #: VA045514 - Anthony G. Borra Collection
- F-4 Phantom at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Saigon after the Tet Offensive. (open complete record)
Tan Son Nhut February 18th Attack
Item #: VA030831 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSO-1258-22/AGA68 RVN Son Nhut A damaged F-4 Phantom jet hit by a 122MM rocket during the rocket and mortar barrage on Tan Son Nhut Air Base 18 Feb 1968 Photo by: SP4 Allan R. Dewitt Pictorial A-V Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030833 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSO-1258-22/AGA68 RVN Son Nhut A damaged F-4 Phantom jet hit by a 122MM rocket during the rocket and mortar barrage on Tan Son Nhut Air Base 18 Feb 1968 Photo by: SP4 Allan R. Dewitt Pictorial A-V Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030835 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSO-1258-22/AGA68 RVN Son Nhut A damaged F-4 Phantom jet hit by a 122MM rocket during the rocket and mortar barrage on Tan Son Nhut Air Base 18 Feb 1968 Photo by: SP4 Allan R. Dewitt Pictorial A-V Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030841 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1256-16/AGA68 RVN Tan Son Nhut The remains of the Tan Son Nhut Chapel, hit during the rocket and mortar attack on Tan Son Nhut Air Base. 18 Feb. 1968 Photo by: SP4 Thomas G. Wong Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
BOQ #3
Item #: VA030777 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-4/AGA68 RVN Saigon U.S. soldiers provide support for other units making a sweep of the BOQ #3 area. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030779 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-10/AGA68 RVN Saigon
U.S. soldiers move into the alley behind BOQ #3 in Saigon. 31 January 1968
Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price - Pictorial A.V. Plt. - 69th Signal Battalion (A)
Publication of this photograph is not authorized unless approved for release by a Public Informa... (open complete record)
Item #: VA030780 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-8/AGA68 RVN Saigon U.S. soldiers move into the alley behind BOQ #3 in Saigon. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030783 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-1-/AGA68 RVN Saigon U.S. soldiers move into the alley behind BOQ #3 in Saigon. 31 January 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030785 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-54/AGA68 RVN Saigon Building damage in the area of BOQ #3 in Saigon. 1 Feb. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030787 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-64/AGA68 RVN Saigon Viet Cong suspects captured during fighting in the area of BOQ #3 in Saigon. 1 Feb. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030790 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-81/AGA68 RVN Saigon U.S. soldiers move into the alley behind BOQ #3 in Saigon. 31 Janaury 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030792 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-1031-62/AGA68 RVN Saigon Allied casualties of the fighting that took place in the area of BOQ #3 in Saigon. 1 Feb. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Singal Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030794 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-84/AGA68 RVN Saigon This military police truck, carrying MP's to the fighting in the BOQ #3 area of Saigon, was hit by a Claymore mine killing all passengers. 1 Feb. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030821 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-87/AGA68 RVN Saigon Three MP's killed during the fighting in the BOQ #3 area of Saigon, lay on stretchers as a dead Viet Cong lies in the background. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Khe Sanh
Item #: VA006194 - Burch Collection (National Vietnam Veterans Coalition (NVVC) Collection)
- American troops battle with North Vietnamese at Khe Sanh during the nationwide Vietcong-North Vietnamese Tet offensive that proved to be a turning point in the Vietnam War. Credit: Robert Ellison, Black Star. (open complete record)
Item #: VA020893 - Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons Collection
- (060) Marines forward observers trying to spot North Vietnamese Army Mortar position from front lines at Khe Sanh. 3D-32-492-68 3rdMarDiv [3rd Marine Division] Photog: Sgt J. S. Ryan Defense Dept. Photo (Marine Corps) fhm A190852 (open complete record)
Item #: VA020945 - Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons Collection
- (112) Resupply - An Air Force C-123 touches down at Khe Sanh beyond the leveled ammunition dump. 3M-1-0134-68 III MAF [Third Marine Amphibious Force] Vietnam 21Jan68 Photog: Sgt. Patterson Defense Dept. Photo (Marine Corps) d1 A190378 (open complete record)
Item #: VA020948 - Brigadier General Edwin H. Simmons Collection
- (115) An eruption of smoke and dust obscures part of the beleaguered Marine combat base at Khe Sanh during a recent North Vietnamese rocket attack. 3rd MarDiv [3rd Marine Division] Vietnam 21Feb68 Photog: Cpl L.F. George Defense Dept. Photo (Marine Corps) rfs A190594 (open complete record)
Item #: VA035243 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- 3D-2-600-68 Third MarDiv Vietnam 16Apr68 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman at Khe Sanh. Defense Dept. Photo (Marine Corps) mee A801201 (open complete record)
Item #: VA035276 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- 3M-47-0369-68 III MAF Vietnam 3Mar68 Photog: Hale During a lull from incoming rocket and mortar rounds at Khe Sanh, a telecast is filmed by an NBC News Team. Defense Dept. Photo (Marine Corps) rfs Ai90888 (open complete record)
Item #: VA035354 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- 103718 USAF - U.S. Marines, waiting to board an Air Force C-123 Provider transport of the 315th Air Commando Wing at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, crouch along an offloading ramp and behind a metal storage box. March 1968. U.S. Air Force Photo (open complete record)
Item #: VA035378 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- 'Khe Sanh Commander U.S. Marine Col David E. Lownds is commander of the reinforced 26th Marine regiment at Khe Sanh, South Vietnam, Where Two Divisions of North Vietnamese troops have encircled the Marine base. He says the morale and discipline of his men are high.' Wide World Photos (open complete record)
Item #: VA035397 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- 'C-130 Landing at Khe Sanh Under Fire Getting there was half the story.' U.S. Air Force U.S Air Force and Navy Jets put down a line of defensive fire as they engage in the protection of a C-130 transport preparing for departure from the Marine base at Khe Sanh. Enemy forces were spotted moving a... (open complete record)
Item #: VA035398 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- 'cc 47903 Khe Sanh, Vietnam Operation 'Pegasus' 1st Cav Div (Airmobile) 6-8 April 1968 Photo by SSG Luis Dacurro USA Sp Photo Det, Pac U.S. Army Photograph' 2nd caption by Department of Defense ( U.S. Army 'Khe Sanh: Looking West (April 1968) Marines outposts are on hills in background.' (open complete record)
Item #: VAS000005 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Artillery at Khe Sanh firing back (open complete record)
Item #: VAS000008 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Ammunition Pit Explosion (open complete record)
Item #: VAS006564 - Paul Cecil Collection (Ranch Hand Association Vietnam)
- Bomb craters near Khe Sanh; May 1968 (open complete record)
Embassy
Item #: VA000499 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- US Embassy during the 1968 TET offensive. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000538 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Scene from the US embassy during the TET offensive (open complete record)
Item #: VA000968 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN and U. S. military retake the American Embassy on Thong Nhut Street in Saigon. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000969 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Soldier takes cover beside a Citroen touring car during the operation to clear the U. S. Embassy grounds of Viet Cong sappers who had breached the security perimeter on 31 January 1968. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000970 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Bodies of Viet Cong sappers who breached the security perimeter of the U. S. Embassy in Saigon on 31 January 1968. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000972 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Viet Cong sappers who penetrated the security perimeter at the American Embassy in Saigon are carried out of the embassy compound. (open complete record)
Item #: VA030791 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-73/AGA68 RVN Saigon A military police sergeant carries a wounded Viet Cong to an ambulance during fighting at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. 31 January 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030803 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-36/AGA68 RVN Saigon Damage from rockets and mortars on the U.S. Embassy. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030804 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-2-1031-27/AGA68 RVN Saigon Military police watch for enemy activity inside the grounds of the U.S. Embassy. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030805 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-24/AGA68 RVN Saigon The hole in the embassy wall through which Viet Cong commandos attacked the U.S. Embassy. 31 Jan. 1968 SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030806 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-33/AGA68 RVN Saigon Military police take up positions across the street from the U.S. Embassy. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030808 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-31/AGA68 RVN Saigon Military police from the 716th and 527th MP Bn, take their positions across the street from the U.S. Embassy. 31 January 1968. Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Platoon, 69th Signal Battalion (A) [716th Military Police Battalion ; 527th Military Police Bat... (open complete record)
Item #: VA030809 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-26/AGA68
RVN Saigon - A MP [Military Police] watches the American Embassy from his position across the street. 31 January 1968.
Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price. Pictorial A.V. Platoon. 69th Signal Battalion. (open complete record)
Item #: VA030810 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-79/AGA68 RVN Saigon civilian and military personnel at the main entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: 1LT E.B. Herr Neckar Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030823 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-20-/AGA68 RVN Saigon Gen. William C. Westmoreland talls to military personnel in the U.S. Embassy after an unsuccessful Viet Cong seige. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030824 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-17/AGA68 RVN Saigon One of the side entrances to the U.S. Embassy. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030825 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-16/AGA68 RVN Saigon The main entrance to the U.S. Embassy. 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. (A) (open complete record)
Item #: VA030828 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-1031-76/AGA68 RVN Saigon Two military police helmets, one with a bullet hole in it, and a pool of blood mark the spot where two MPs were killed by Viet Cong commandos during the attack on the U.S. Embassy (background). 31 Jan. 1968 Photo by: SP5 Edgar Price Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. Bn. ... (open complete record)
Item #: VA035160 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- 45767 Saigon, Republic of Vietnam Viet Cong attack the American Embassy A force of 19Viet Cong gained entrance to the embassy by blasting a hole in the northeast corner of the front wall. MP's guard the entrance to the embassy. 31 January 1968/ photo by sP5 Samuel L. Swain/ US Army Sp photo Det... (open complete record)
Item #: VA035387 - Peter Braestrup Collection
- cc 45769 - Saigon Republic of Vietnam. Viet Cong Attack American Embassy. Members of the 716th MP [Military Police] Battalion guard the entrance to the embassy. 31 January 1968.
Photo by SP6 Samuel L. Swain, US Army Special Photographic Detachment [DASPO], Pacific.
'One could not se... (open complete record)
Other Attacks
Item #: VA000036 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Consl Reconstruction... Under the direction of a labor Union official a private cooperation subcommittee started reconstruction of My Tho while rubble surrounded buildings damaged by the communist attack on My Tho. 'A Vietnamese... (open complete record)
Item #: VA000315 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Battle of Dak To (open complete record)
Item #: VA000375 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN troops taking part in the battle at Dak To in South Vietnam's highlands during late November, 1967 (open complete record)
Item #: VA000377 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- ARVN troops taking part in the battle at Dak To in South Vietnam's highlands during late November, 1967 (open complete record)
Item #: VA000474 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Aerial view of the delta city of Can Tho following rocket and mortar attacks by the Viet Cong. (open complete record)
Item #: VA000480 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Twisted tin and inflammable objects are the bare remains in this section of Nha Trang reduced to rubble in the attacks during their TET offensive that left hundreds of thousands homeless and thousands killed. The attacks which began January 31, 1968 marred forever the festive Lunar New Year season ... (open complete record)
Item #: VA001667 - Douglas Pike Photograph Collection
- Refugee supplies furnished by the government of Vietnam is unloaded in Nha Trang as in all areas hard hit by the Viet Cong during the TET offensive as the populace celebrated the Lunar New Year. The traditionally festive season for the Vietnamese people has now forever been marred by the attacks tha... (open complete record)
Mini-Tet
Item #: VA029980 - Bryan Grigsby Collection (Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO))
- 6 May 1968 - Photo by SP4 Bryan Grigsby (DASPO) - Burning Shell Station on Plantation Rd in Gia Dinh, a suburb of Saigon. This site had been the scene of an engagement between 1st ARVN Airborne & a combined N. Vietnamese-Viet Cong force. This action was part of what became known as the Post-Tet Of... (open complete record)
Item #: VA029983 - Bryan Grigsby Collection (Department of the Army Special Photographic Office (DASPO))
- 6 May 1968 - Photo by SP4 Bryan Grigsby (DASPO) - Captured enemy soldier surrounded by members of ARVN Airborne near the French National Cemetery where a firefight had taken place. This young soldier & a colleague had been discovered hiding under a school building. This action was part of what bec... (open complete record)
Item #: VA030840 - Don Jellema Collection
- AVSG-S-C-3073-3/AGA68 Tan Son Nhut An area just off Platation Road and outside the southwestern perimeter of Tan Son Nhut Air Base that was devastated by air strikes and fires during the battle for the old French cemetery. 7 May 1968 Photo by: SP5 J.F. Fitzpatrick Jr. Pictorial A.V. Plt. 69th Sig. ... (open complete record)
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