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...house of Major General Frederick J. Kroesen, the division commander, simply blew apart. In the confusion of crumbling buildings and hangars, one man died, eleven were injured and 33 helicopters were damaged beyond repair. In all, Hester wreaked more havoc on the base in 24 hours than the Viet Cong or the North Vietnamese army could have done in six months. It was a sadly appropriate sendoff. Last week Kroesen pulled the lanyard on an artillery piece and officially fired the last round of the Americal in combat...
...Destroy Is to Save. The extensive television coverage of Tet brought home to many Americans for the first time the bewildering contradictions of a bitter and seemingly unendable war. The summary execution of a Viet Cong prisoner on the streets of Saigon by a South Vietnamese police chief-seen in full color -seemed to dissolve the moral distinctions between friend and foe. "News would travel at 300,000 times the speed of a bullet in flight," writes Oberdorfer. The ultimate irony came from the American major who insisted that "it became necessary to destroy this village to save...
...American officer in Viet Nam called it "a piddling platoon action." But to the millions of Americans who saw TV film clips of the daring attack by a Viet Cong demolition squad on the U.S. embassy in Saigon, the Tet offensive of 1968 was something more impressive than that. "What the hell is going on?" CBS Correspondent Walter Cronkite fairly shouted when he first saw footage of the raid. "I though we were winning the war." So did many of his countrymen, who had taken at face value General William Westmoreland's expansive claim, a few weeks before...
...offensive was a major defeat for the North Vietnamese. More than 67,000 troops were committed to battle in at least 100 cities and villages, in hopes of creating a general uprising that never happened; the Communist assaults on Saigon and Hue were bloodily repulsed. But the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers were able to strike at will all over the country and penetrated Allied lines with ease. This was dramatic evidence that Westmoreland's "success offensive" and his claim of imminent victory had been greatly oversold. The impact of Tet in the press and on TV screens...
...Mukti Bahini captain told me that the Bengali rebels are following the three-stage guerrilla warfare strategy of the Viet Cong, and are now in the first phase of organization and staging hit-and-run attacks. So far the guerrillas in the captain's area of operations have lost about 50 men, and larger army attacks are expected. But the Mukti Bahini plan to mount ambushes and avoid meeting army firepower headon...