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Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - The History Hour - The Tet Offensive. Dec 18, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - Military Victory But Political Defeat: The Tet Offensive 50 Years Later. Oct 29, 2024
Add new Web site: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund - The Tet Offensive. Sep 16, 2024
Add new Web site: Naval History and Heritage Command - Tet: The Turning Point in Vietnam. Jun 20, 2024
Add new Web site: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency - The Tet Offensive. Apr 11, 2024
Add new Web site: National Archives - Vietnam’s Tet Offensive: 50 years later. Feb 29, 2024
Anniversary information added. Jan 24, 2024
Add new Web site: U.S. Department of Defense - Highlighting History: How "Tet" Began the End of Vietnam. Dec 22, 2023
Add new Web site: Brookings - Remembering the Tet Offensive. Nov 10, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - Analytical Failures of the Tet Offensive. Sep 15, 2023
Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - Revisiting the Tet Offensive. Jul 16, 2023
Add new Web site: Alpha History - The Tet Offensive. Apr 29, 2023
Add new Web site: HistoryNet - The Tet Offensive, 52 Years On. Mar 14, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - The Tet Offensive. Dec 25, 2022
Add new Web site: History Today - The Tide Turns in Vietnam: The Tet Offensive. Sep 15, 2022
Article thoroughly revised. Feb 21, 2020
Add new Web site: The History Learning Site - The Tet Offensive. Sep 24, 2018
Revised to mention North Vietnamese casualty figures. Sep 15, 2017
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - American Experience - Vietnam Online. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - American Experience - Vietnam Online. Jan 27, 2017
Add new Web site: Vets War A Memoir - History of Vietnam - Tet Offensive. Aug 15, 2016
Add new Web site: Vets War A Memoir - History of Vietnam - Tet Offensive. Aug 15, 2016
Add new Web site: Office of the Historian - U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive, 1968. Aug 15, 2016
Add new Web site: Office of the Historian - U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive, 1968. Aug 15, 2016
New article added. Jun 19, 2016
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