European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Troops at Edge of copter pad on embassy building during pc attack in yank takes wounded vietnamese to the stunning Impact by Alan Dawson United press Inte Mallona ten years the vietnamese communists launched the Tel offensive their most massive coordinated attacks of the War against american troops and South the Battle was a horrendous loss Lor the Viet Cong in the but it brought about a psychological turning Point on the american Home front and Many commentators believe it was the Point where final Victory by the communists became the offensive began 1961 just 71 Days after William Westmoreland had declared i Hope uhf communists try something because we arc looking for a thirty before the it was Clear West Moreland was going to gel his he reported to Dent Lyndon Johnson our forces have been Able to detect impending major offensives and to mount spoiling the off eos n was largely carried out by toe South vietnamese communist guerrillas the vat battalions invaded 31 Oft be m provincial and the in Hoe and a the Overall offensive had a stunning Impact on the american people and officials in the in his the Vantage wrote i was surprised and disappointed that the enemy efforts produced such a dismal effect on various people inside government and others outside whom i had always regarded As staunch and tet 1968 was More than Ever televisions and two Small actions made great Impact bark in the United a i Man suicide squad of guerrillas invaded the embassy in and television showed Peral Nopen trying and finally succeeding in killing every communist inside the and Saigon chief Nguyen Ngoc loan raised his pistol in front of a television news camera and shot a guerrilla through the As fighting continued across the West Moreland told newsmen in my opinion this tet offensive is a diversionary the a Toerag though the main target was Khe a Page 14 the stars and stripes Marine base in South Vietnam bearing a striking resemblance to dim Blen the communists never attacked Khe after eight Days of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff sent Westmoreland a query do you need reinforcements Westmoreland replied he needed men to add to the americans an the within a the communists were driven out of the Only City they had managed to during their they killed up to residents of Viet name former Imperial the casualties the Viet Cong suffered were and virtually All main Force units were Many Stu dents of the War believe it was those losses Falch pin the North vietnamese army in charge of he Haiti Enfield War and made the eventual 1375 Victory a Hanoi the new Dlen Bien it later became i at Khe it Gnu in the United where i cans opposed Westmoreland request for More i and Richard Nixon was forced to run for president ii on a platform of bringing troops exactly two months after the tet live announced be would not be re president aides said Vietnam had c his ability to get Domestic programs through i r the communists had their own at i Virt Cong commanders promised heir troops would be their final week after Itil Viet Cong councils were saying Victory Sulla and in Viet Cong radio said Saigon troops Are very stubborn and have i everyone who was there remembers what he was doing when he heard the Viet Cong were attack ing for veterans of the tet the period is burned As vividly in their minds As the death of president Kennedy four years for the Day started in a motorized trying to get Bock to work North of i cursed the military police Roadblock at a i hotel which i later Learned was under and is minutes at another i was diving under a friends the Block was just South of us and the vat Cong and american troops were suddenly firing at each a stunned at the first i Mon of what was happen inc in Sau Vuu Oasis of the Middle Fraer Aiyu i remember i had lust Rotten at and half a mile later the ski ambushed and several officers said me survivor almost literally know Kelt out of said policemen to the Section of the is accustomed to with i Drinken gis than they Diho a Viet Cong ambush and i but most of n remember the Tracten on lunar new years continued into the and Only gradually merged and Wen