Vietnam - 1968, Vietcong Attacks Saigon During Tet (Lunar New Year), 31Jan-02Feb68 No. 1

Vietnam - 1968, Vietcong Attacks Saigon During Tet (Lunar New Year), 31Jan-02Feb68 No. 1 CUs crushed MP & Marine helmets on ground. US soldiers in side street amid rubble. US soldier lies flat atop V100 armored commando car as it moves into alley; MPs & soldiers follow closely behind the V-100. MCU dead Viet Cong, tilt up to wrecked 2-12 ton truck and V-100 in alley - MPs & soldiers firing rifles from behind the vehicles. 12:56:35 Armored commando car pulls up after running over soldier - crushed soldier is pulled away. Wounded soldiers treated, placed on litters & put in ambulance. 12:57:50 MCU South Vietnamese female soldier, male soldier behind on field telephone - shouting to civilians running past. ARVN soldiers attacking hut in outskirts of Saigon; soldier on telephone, others w/ large radio packs on back. View across canal . More civilians - woman running w/ white flag. 12:59:51 Slate. HA pan shot line of M113 APCs along street. LSs AIE Skyraider jet attacking buildings in city. HA troops in armored vehicles along street. 13:00:14 American 1st Infantry Division soldiers searching cemetery, mopping up; CUs soldiers next to graves / tombs. INCOMPLETE. Entire reel on LN 501-458 & 221064. Vietnam War; Tet Offensive; Horrors of War;