Viet Cong’s Tet Activities, 31Jan-01Feb68

Viet Cong’s Tet Activities, 31Jan-01Feb68 Color Saigon, South Vietnam Armored commando car (V-100) down narrow street to wrecked 2.5 ton truck past helmet on ground, troops firing M-16 rifles from behind fence. V-100 backs out & wounded soldier taken out and put on stretcher, carried to ambulance. 12:01:22 Wrecked bullet-riddled Renault at curb outside US Embassy Compound. 12:02:29 25th Division M-113s (tracked armored vehicles) past on street in convoy. Viet civilians & army photographer watch. People on motorcycles watch. Sign: Mung Xuan Mau-Than over sandbagged entrance. HA of ambulances racing up street; UH-1B helicopters attacking building, people watching from rooftops. Smoke from fighting. 12:04:46 02Feb68 Helicopter aerials over Saigon w/ fires burning, machine gun in lower part of frame; rockets fired seen from front. Explosions seen from ground, people watching from rooftops. 12:07:09 Truck facing camera on narrow street, soldiers running toward camera wounded. CU treating badly wounded (missing arm), put into ambulance. Another wounded put on stretcher. Soldiers confer; others resting outside fence. 12:08:15 Helicopters over smokey rooftops. Explosions & smoke rising. Vietnam War; Horrors of War;