National Liberation Front commandos blasted through the wall surrounding the American embassy in Saigon during the Tet Offensive and unsuccessfully attempted to seize the embassy building.
Sources
- Tet Offensive shakes Cold War confidence | January 30, 1968 | HISTORY (history.com)
- https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/tet (history.state.gov)
- https://afsa.org/viet-cong-attack-embassy-saigon-1968 (afsa.org)
- https://adst.org/2013/07/viet-cong-invade-american-embassy-the-1968-tet-offensive/ (adst.org)
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