Tet Offensive 1968 by James Arnold

Author:James Arnold
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Tet Offensive 1968: Turning Point in Vietnam
ISBN: 9781782004288
Publisher: Osprey Publishing

A dead VC next to a landscape planter inside the embassy compound. His rocket launcher and equipment lie nearby.

Reporters swarmed the grounds as military spokesmen tried to explain what had happened. Controversy centred on whether the VC had actually entered the embassy. Although they had not technically entered the embassy building, the AP stood by their opposing claim. Too often reporters had been deceived by official pronouncements. AP’s insistence that the VC had entered the embassy further undercut the credibility of official statements and set the stage for one of the most memorable visual images in this, the world’s first television war.

At 9.20am, Westmoreland arrived at the just-secured compound dressed in an immaculately pressed and starched uniform and held a hastily arranged Press conference. In America viewers saw a scene of carnage. Dead VC sappers littered the embassy grounds, their bodies sprawled around the flower pots. Blood, death, and battle damage abounded. In the midst of an embassy apparently under siege, the general explained that the the enemy never penetrated the embassy itself. He exuded confidence and claimed the allies were returning to the offensive.

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