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The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam War with America spending US$77.4 billion (US$ 699 billion in 2025) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 ARVN soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand PAVN/VC killed.
Operation Leap Frog [2] Systematic canvassing of the opinions of senior ARVN officers by U.S. military intelligence on likely Vietcong actions: 68 – 69: Operation Duck Hook [1] Nixon administration covert plan to coerce the North Vietnamese to make concessions at the Paris Peace Talks: 68 – 69: Operation Inferno [1]
The Battle for Quang Tri occurred in and around Quảng Trị City (Quảng Trị Province), the northernmost provincial capital of South Vietnam during the Tet Offensive when the Vietcong (VC) and People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) attacked Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and American forces across major cities and towns in South Vietnam in an attempt to force the Saigon government to ...
Operation Toan Thang II ("Complete Victory") was an operation conducted by the US Army and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) during the Vietnam War between 1 June 1968 and 16 February 1969. It was designed to keep pressure on the Viet Cong (VC) and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) forces at III Corps .
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 [A 1] – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies.
Phase III of the Tet offensive of 1968 (also known as the August offensive or Third offensive) was launched by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) from 17 August to 27 September 1968. The offensive was divided into two waves of attacks from 17 to 31 August 1968 and from 11 to 27 September of that same year.
Tiếng Việt; 中文; Edit links ... List of United States servicemembers and civilians missing in action during the Vietnam War (1968–69) ... Wikipedia® is a ...
[note 1] A photograph of Thắng smiling, taken by a Japanese reporter at her sentencing, became popularly known as the "Smile of Victory", a symbol of Vietnamese women who fought in the Vietnam War. [1] [2] Thắng was released on 7 March 1974 under the Paris Peace Accords, having served less than six years of her sentence. [1] [2]