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Latest revision as of 08:13, 30 March 2026
At the beginning of the Tet Offensive on the morning of January 31, 1968, 19 Việt Cộng sappers entered the embassy grounds through a hole in the wall and occupied the area for six hours. Two military police officers and a USMC soldier were killed during the fighting. Soldiers of the 101st U.S. Airborne Division conquered the area at noon and killed all Vietnamese invaders.
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History
The U.S. Embassy in Saigon became one of the most famous targets of the Tet Offensive during the early morning of 31 January 1968. As Communist forces launched coordinated attacks across South Vietnam, a 19-man Việt Cộng sapper team struck the embassy compound in the capital, aiming at one of the most symbolically important American sites in the country.
At 2:47 a.m., the attackers blew a hole in the perimeter wall and forced their way onto the embassy grounds. Although they successfully penetrated the compound and held part of it for several hours, they were unable to enter and seize the main chancery building itself. Fighting continued through the night and into the morning as U.S. military police, Marine security guards, and reinforcing troops moved to contain and destroy the attackers.
The battle was small in scale compared with the wider fighting across Saigon, but its psychological impact was enormous. Images and reports that Việt Cộng commandos had reached the grounds of the U.S. Embassy shocked American audiences and quickly became one of the defining moments of the Tet Offensive. In military terms, the attack failed to achieve its larger objective, but politically and symbolically it became one of the most damaging episodes of the war for the United States.
By around 9:00 a.m., the embassy compound had been declared secure. Nineteen of the attackers were killed and one was captured, while the American defenders lost four military policemen and one Marine. Even though the embassy itself was not captured, the assault showed that Communist forces could strike at the very center of American power in Saigon.
Sources
- The Soldiers Network Association, Assault on the American Embassy TET 1968 — https://tsna.org/documents/60.pdf
- U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive, 1968 — https://history.state.gov/milestones/1961-1968/tet
- National Museum of American Diplomacy, A Piece of the 1968 Attack on U.S. Embassy, Saigon — https://diplomacy.state.gov/a-piece-of-the-1968-attack-on-u-s-embassy-saigon/