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After Tet | Vietnam War Combat Footage | Archive Documentary (1968)

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Following the Tet Offensive of January 1968, the Vietnam War entered a turbulent new chapter as violence and instability spread across South Vietnam. In the early months of 1968, ITN’s Alan Hart and cameramen Peter Brown and Chris Faulds documented American and South Vietnamese efforts to push back Viet Cong forces across the country. Hart’s reports captured some of the fiercest fighting of early 1968, along with the human cost the war imposed on South Vietnam’s civilian population. They are presented here in full.

00:00 Introduction
01:34 Hart report from Saigon (28 February 1968)
02:49 Fighting around Tan Son Nhut Air Base (1 March 1968)
07:11 US action in Quang Tri Province (11 March 1968)
11:00 Report on ARVN recruits at Quang Trung Training Centre (22 March 1968)
13:53 Battle of Duc Hoa (25 March 1968)
18:01 Refugee family in Saigon (12 April 1968)
20:33 US forces recapture Lang Vei Special Forces Camp (16 April 1968)

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20 Comments

@defyhistory 1 month ago

More than fifty years later, this footage still feels raw. War may end on paper, but it doesn’t end so easily for the people who lived through it.

@PeteTerry-x8k 3 months ago (edited)

My brother was there during Tet.....Tuy hoa air base......he made it home ok....what's hilarious is I went in the Air Force in 1970 and my 1st duty station after tech school was Kingsley field Oregon .My next door neighbor in the barracks was a heavy duty drinker who was a cook in my squadron.Anyway it's 1971 and we're drinking in the barracks and we are talking and I mentioned my brother was stationed at Tuy hoa air base in 1968 well it just so happened that he knew my brother from there. I Couldn't believe it I called my brother and said did you know a cook when you were in Vietnam named Pasternak he said yea he did,I told he was in the room next door to me in my barracks,I told him he got busted for falling asleep in bed while smoking during fire prevention month...well we were howling,my brother was a big drinker himself but how ironic is that....unbelievable and funny !!!.

@Steve-h4h 7 months ago

Best video of Vietnam war. Not a bunch of chopped random up clips

@bhoomahema 8 months ago

Some of the best footage on the vietnam war...even better than the ones that US news networks have. Thanks

@lzxray6781 8 months ago

This was really great footage! I've never seen this before. Thanks ITN for preserving these reports.

@bulletpoints556 8 months ago

The soldier fired an M-79 round into a bunker that failed to explode because it didn’t travel far enough to arm. Another soldier follows up with a hand grenade. Fun fact; Vietnam now produces a copy of the M-79.

@chiefslief1998 7 months ago

This is some true footage!! No bullshit with own Opinions but showing and telling how it IS. Thanks again ITN.
I still hope and wish that war and evil will not prevail. God Bless you all❤

@Delatta1961 8 months ago (edited)

Great story. I hope there’s more to come. This is history that can’t be disputed or rewritten

@marcs.6913 1 month ago

OP this footage is incredible. The danger, the ultra-violence, and the extreme sense of urgency that pervades everything happening in this film, almost makes it seem like this war is still being fought -

@GeorgeBrodrick 6 months ago

One brave reporter!

@baldwintheanchorite 8 months ago

Thanks ITN.

@thomasblonk9024 7 months ago

Another great job from you guys at ITN uploading this great footage. Amazing how you can keep finding unpublished footage and in such good quality! Would love to see more

@craigwoods368 7 months ago

this is absolutely incredible video great footage and the reporter has some guts doing what he is doing some of the best I've seen close up front footage of this war

@jimanderson6544 7 months ago

Never seen this one

Quality once again 👍

@SkunkPatchGenetics 7 months ago

Lang Vei is much more barren and rocky than I pictured it. This is amazing film to see that place. The story of that place being overrun is just insane.

@stumckenzie1351 7 months ago

"We on the TV? We are all gonna to be on candid camera"😮

@deejayhoneylove 6 months ago

This is better than most of the US network tv news films of the time.

@uncleronnie686 7 months ago

There is a book called “Ringed in Steel” written by an Armored Cavalry Officer about his experiences in Vietnam Nam and the Tet Offensive. It is an excellent read!