Announcer: In Vietnam, the Tet Offensive, the Battle of Ka-San, the peace talks, and the bombing halt, captured the headlines during 1968. The fighting in the streets of Saigon during the New Year ...
On Feb. 1, 1968 — the first day of North Vietnam’s mammoth Tet Offensive — Chief Warrant Officer Tommy G. Sandefur of Tulsa, Oklahoma was piloting the helicopter when a bullet pierced it ...
1968, he received orders to go north to a coastal city called Hue to launch a new radio station. As he described in the documentary, the city was “a sleepy backwater.” The Tet Offensive changed that.