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Vietnam TET Offensive 1968

TET Offensive
TET Offensive		 US Embassy Attack
US Embassy Attack		 US Embassy Attack (TET Offensive)
US Embassy Attack (TET Offensive)		 TET Offensive
TET Offensive		 TET Offensive
TET Offensive
TET Offensive
TET Offensive		 US Embassy Attack (TET Offensive)
US Embassy Attack (TET Offensive)		 US Embassy Saigon
US Embassy Saigon

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Ernie 22-Jul-2025 18:55
NhaTrang, morning of 30 Jan 1968-TET 68. Army photographer shot on street between 272nd MP Compound and FFV office bldg. NVA over-ran FFV and were having a BIG fire-fight with 272 MPS. I was on
east corner by FFV gate when a Sapper ran down driveway and headed towards MP Compound wall. I nailed him and he dropped in middle of street. Saw a hand with 45 appear in steel plate of MP gate and
begin firing at Sapper's head. VIETNAM magazine (Dec early 20's) had pictures with article on this incident. Did photographer survive? Wrote to VIETNAM mag I got reply. No mention. Ernie A/504 MP Bn
Guest 12-Aug-2024 22:39
Hi Everyone. I am Michael Drvito and served in the 16th MP Group Head Quarters as the RAnd R clerk from November of 1968 to July of 1969. I lived on Csmp John F. McDermott with the 218 th MPs. If you were there at that time your RR went through me! I have lots of black and white pictures of Nah Trang as well. Thank you for allowing me to post this.
Guest 29-Dec-2018 22:49
I was a cwo-2 huey c model gunship fire team leader 17thASHC at plantation airstrip Long bien. My fire team was on strip alert and called out 0: 100 to find incoming rockets to long bien. We
destroyed them at 0:400 we were told to fly over the ammo dump with our landing lights on to draw fire from sappers. The MPs killed them. At day light we were told to get airborne VC were between our airstrip and the ammo dump fence. About 0:700 My fire team was called to the American embassy I fired rockets inyo the ally between the BOQ and embassy. 7 MPS came out of the ally alive. I got a DFC a year latter at FT Wolters
Bob Gosselin 03-Jun-2018 17:14
Anyone recollect my dad, Robert Gosselin who was a supply SGT in Vietnam with the 2nd battalion, 11th artillery from Oct 67 - Mar 68, then section chief with company B, 54th Signal battalion from Mar - Sep 68. Any information about where these companies were stationed in Vietnam during that time frame would be appreciated.
Guest 30-Mar-2018 23:49
I am Ed Van Hee and I was in the 54th signal battalion in 67-68 I have a twin brother that was in the same battalion at the same time. my contact evanhee@aol.com
Guest 24-Feb-2018 09:39
Nha Trang
Catherine ashley owens 28-Sep-2017 20:40
Looking for any information whatsoever about my grandfather, Sgt Leonard Lee Moore. 716th MP BN B company, 89th MP Grp, 18th MP BDE. I never got to meet him and have always thought about him, basically almost desperate to know about him. He was killed 8/8/68 in Gia Dinh. I've heard a grenade was thrown into his jeep but want to know what was happening, what he was doing, if he was alone , anything. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for your sacrifices. Ashley Moore ashleyisash@gmail.com
Guest 28-Sep-2017 20:35
Looking for information on my grandfather, Sgt Leonard Lee Moore 716th mp B company, 89th MP grp, 18th MP BDE. He was killed in Gia Ding 8/8/68. I've heard a grenade was thrown in a jeep but not sure what happened. Looking for any information at all, I never got the pleasure of meeting him and I'm desperate to know him. Thank you all for your service, my prayers are with you all everyday. Ashleyisash@gmail.com
Guest 07-Jan-2017 02:44
I was with Co. C during TET. I went to Vietnan in February 1967 and left Febuary 1968. My name is Michael Murphy and my address is 345 West Arbor Street, Eden North Carolina 27288.
William Brown 23-Mar-2016 14:53
I am a writing this in hopes to connect with anybody form HHQ 54th Sig. Bn. 1FFV. I was there from 23 Feb 67 to 12 Feb 68. MOS was 72C20. I was CQ runner in Camp McDerrmitt during the morning of the TET attack around 0300 when the sky lit up like it was daylight. Red alert, the sound of fire exchange in the distance proved VC were trying to break the perimeter. Everyone was battle ready within a couple of minutes and in place. The VC never got in. My name is William Brown, and my E-mail is wil7bro@aol.com if anyone can relate to this, please contact me
ROBIN L STEELE 14-Mar-2016 21:46
Robin Lee Steele
USAF AF11703031
Power Production
12th Air Force, Nha Trang
April 1967 - May 1968

I have pictures of the base but not of TET!
Virgil Chance 06-Nov-2015 04:02
The 716th MP Battalion Viet Nam meets every other year and has a web site. 716mpvietnam.org They have a good list of our guys who served any time with the 716th. I was there from December 1967 to December 1968. We have identified the 12 of us who went to the Phu To race track during TET. This is a great time of telling stories and fellowship.

The next reunion is August 25 to 27, 2016 in Omaha, Nebraska. Ramada Plaza Hotel.
Al Davis 04-Jun-2015 18:07
My name is Al Davis 716th MP. I stayed at the Capital Hotel in Cholon. During the Tet Offensive I rode in a jeep with a Sgt. Miles for three days all over Saigon. I will like to connect with him. Does anyone know him? My cell is 404 309 3804. email is aldavis@davismfg.com
Dee Christensen 07-Jan-2015 23:30
I was sitting in my hootch in the 5th SF Hqs sipping on a terrible bottle of scotch with the CO of the Signal Security Company when we started taking fire. At first I thought it was firecrackers, but when the mortars started it was obvious not fun and games. If any one can tell me the name of the CO of that company I would love to make contact with him. I can't remember if it was his scotch or mine and I owe him a good bottle of scotch.

Dee C Christensen, LTC retired
JAMES A MCDONAGH 07-Jan-2015 02:11
I was with you in Co A 519 from Oct 67 to MAR 68. I talked to Joe Lacowiec CMIC of New Jersey. I asked him if he could remember our Co A XO under Major John Devine CO. He said he remembered a tall light skinned black man. He couldnt remember his name. The man's name was Colin Powell with a wife named Alma. More to the story if you care to call me 541 9444591. I live in Medford Oregon
mike dedrick 16-Dec-2014 05:43
Anyone with information on the dead Biet Dong can contact me mikededrick@comcast.net
Thanks
mike dedrick 16-Dec-2014 05:39
Hello: I was an Interrogator-Linguist with Co A, 519th MI Bn, on Plantation Road. Our pow compound at Combined Military Interrogation Center was just down the street from the Phu To Racetrack. I interrogated one of the three survivors of the attack on US embassy-Ngo Van Giang, aka Ba Den. He was the commander of the forces called Biet Dong-(rangers/commandos). I went back to VN in 2012 trying to find out what happened to him. Turns out he survived the war and prison only to die in a traffic accident near the Y bridge. By a complicated chain of chance and luck I was able to talk to some of his Biet Dong brothers in arms and ended up with 14 hours of audio interviewing eight former Biet Dong, including three women and two senior commanders. Almost all of the Soldiers wanted to know where their dead comrades were buried, and I was asked to see what I could find out. I know the 716th MPs were involved in the firefight at the embassy and there are pictures of MPs with dead and wounded enemy. Would any of the posters on this site have any information as to where the dead VC/BietDong were buried? As you may know, Vietnamese are very respectful of their dead and like us, want to know where their MIA are buried.
Mike Dedrick

I have a longer narrative of my interview project for those wishing some background.
Mike Lawlor 13-Dec-2014 06:15
New mini documentry of David Bulloch M.P. at the Embassy. His recolections of
the night and day after. It is on You Tube. "David Bulloch Embass Tet Offensive"
Guest 13-Dec-2014 06:13
I did a mini documentry of David Bulloch on the night and say of the offensive, embasy US. It is on Youtube and is new as of Dec, 12, 2014.
Mike
Sacramento
sm2277@aol.com
Guest 02-Nov-2014 17:55
bob g i think your right the man with the bloody bandage is pvt Sims the guy kneeling is lt walton i was there scottymelton66@gmail.com
George DeLuca 22-May-2014 18:26
I need TET Offensive images for a 90 minute documentary about homelessness in Lowell, MA. One of the homeless participants who was in Lowell's shelter at the time of filming was a Marine during the time period. He talks about the various skirmishes and I'd like to have a series of photos showing as he speaks. Anyone with ideas or suggestions please email me at george@cometolowell.com . Thanks!
Sharon Burnette Fox 05-Apr-2014 20:44
I meant to add my brother's previous unit: Co B, 5th Battalion (Airmobile) 7th Cavalry, 1st Air Cavalry Division before this transfer. Comments I posted from his last letter, were written the day BEFORE he was killed Jan 31, 1968. God Bless all that have served.
Sharon Burnette Fox 05-Apr-2014 12:05
This is my first time reviewing this website. My brother Sgt Archie Burnette Jr, was transferred to a new unit, Co B, 1/50 Inf (Mech), 1st Cav Div (A.M.), he writes about 115 miles outside On (An?) Khe, Jan 1968. He was 22 days from R & R in Hawaii with his wife, and would have turned 21 on Feb 21, 1968. I just found the last letter he wrote to our Mother on Jan 30, 1968, the day he was killed. He writes "the civilians are celebrating their 4th of July type thing. It's called Tet. Everytime a damn firecracker goes off, I almost hit the ground. I'll be glad when it's over." He wrote to all of us that day. We didn't receive the letters until after he was killed. He had been selected for the Old Guard, Arlington, Virginia after basic training. I was a sophomore in high school when he left for VietNam. It's been a long healing process and it was a while before I realized he was in infantry/officer training. I always thought he would be safe. He left a wife and 3 month old son, who is now grown with 2 daughters. I did find an veteran advocate, received transcripts of Archie's service records. The story, we had been told was information given his former brother-in-law, Tom Hranac, member of Green Berets at the time, that there was sniper-fire, Archie yelling for everyone to drop, yelling "ambush", he being hit with mortar fire about the shoulder area. I need more time to do research for his granddaughters. I have tried to avoid the details for many years. This should never be forgotten. Thank you and others for the coverage. Sharon Burnette Fox
VICTOR RHODES 22-Feb-2014 23:08
Was the White BOQ overran during 1968 TET?
I rotated back home on Jan 24th 1968, a week ahead of the TET.
SP7 Victor Rhodes, Houston, Texas
Guest 13-Feb-2014 01:05
Hi guys - trevor coote here - served in the Australian Military Police in Siagon during the Siagon Tet Offensive.Be ood to hear from you guys who served with us.Send photo's if you have some to email address_
tmcoote216014@outlook.com
cheers
Trevor coote
Australia
Gary Mills 24-Aug-2013 21:08
Gary M. Mills
US 56424885
First Field Force Vietnam ( IFFV ) Nha Trang
HQ.Company 54th Signal Battalion Camp John F. Mc Dermott
Feb. 1967 - Feb 1968
31e20 Field Radio Repairman
APO 96350
allveteransreunion.org
g31e20x@aol.com
Survivor '' tet '' 1968
Intrepid fallenherosfund.org
Gary Mills 24-Aug-2013 07:15
This is for any one who was in the 54th Feb67 - Feb68 I was in electronic maintenance 31e20 field radio repairman. I knew a lot of the combat photographers. I knew Marcello ''Marc '' J Lofaro very well. I visited Marc at The Wall in 2002 left him Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, album by the Beatles. Along with the story I knew of Marc and wanted to share with people who didn't know him. We lost our white Berry Gordy. Marc was a gifted musician. ''Some Gave All'' I salute you my brother....Gary Mills US-56424885 g31e20x@aol.com contact me my brothers......WELCOME HOME!
Herman 11-Jul-2013 20:35
I was in Saigon in 1968 on the 1st of January. Actually, I was there on Dec. 17th of '68 through Jan. of '70. The '70 TET was not so surprising. Do you have other photos. I was 54th Sig. attached to the MacV camp.
Guest 24-Oct-2012 00:50
I am Al Davis. They have my email address wrong. They have it as aldavis@mfg.com
It should be aldavis@davismfg.com.
Bob G 16-Aug-2012 14:49
I joined Co C., 716th MP Bn right after Tet. Fresh meat repllacement for the alert team causalties. I think the photo of the MP with the bloody bandage, the photo of the guy kneeling ovrer the corpse, and the shot-up building were all taken in the alley next to BOQ #3 where the Co. C alert team was ambushed. I spent several nights at BOQ #3 and am pretty sure that those photos were taken in that alley
Al Davis 19-Jun-2012 02:55
I was a MP in Cholon staying at the Capitol Hotel. I rode in a jeep with Sgt. Miles during the tet offensive. I would like to connect with him does anyone know him.

Al Davis
aldavis@mfg.com
Guest 14-Dec-2011 22:33
Hey, Allen Wilson. Just saw your note of Dec. 11, 2011. Unfortunately it didn't include contact info. It stopped after saying "Don Hirst can reach me at"

Don Hirst
soleprop@aol.com
Allen Wilson 11-Dec-2011 21:15
Just read Don Hirst.s article in Feb 2012 Vietnam Magazine was very surprised
that Don and I served in the same unit (54th Signal Battalion 67-68). I also knew
Mark Lofaro and actually shared the same Hooch with him. I remember that
night of Tet very visibily as I was trapped in the town of Nha Trang for that and
some nights afterwards. Don Hirst can reach me at
Guest 12-Oct-2011 00:26
I shot three of these photos on the morning of Jan. 31, 1968 when I was a young enlisted Army photographer: top row, second from left (MPs with captured VC sapper), third from left (EOD team removing unexploded ordnance from dead VC sapper) .

Bottom row, second from left (MPs from the 716th MP Battalion lean against the embassy's wall after the shooting had stopped).

Don Hirst

Look for the story behind the photos in the Feb. 2012 issue of Vietnam Magazine.
Dan Greenberg16-Jan-2010 16:31
I cannot even imagine what it must have been like to be there, let alone have the composure to photograph any of it. Thanks for sharing these Tom. What kind of camera did you use?
hiker03-Jan-2010 14:59
Nice work. Oh the irony. TET was such a huge loss for the North (personal wise,) they wouldn't be able to launch an offensive of any significance for over two years. Had to wait for the younger kids to get old enough to fight.
Kim01-Jan-2010 22:05
Fantastic work!!! V
Valene30-Dec-2009 06:45
Great historical gallery. I had family in Vietnam during the TET Offensive, so
this really rings a bell with me. V
Jean-Luc Rollier26-Dec-2009 00:04
Very interesting work Tom! Thanks for this historic documentary.
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