- On January 31, 1968, some 70,000 DRV forces under General Vo Nguyen Giap launched the Tet offensive a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam.
- the average soldier served 240 days of combat in 1 year
- average age was 21
- more than 2,800 bodies, another 3,000 residents were missing, and the occupying forces had destroyed many of the once-grand city’s temples, palaces and other monuments.
- January 21, 1968, PAVN forces began a massive artillery bombardment of the U.S. Marine garrison at The Sanh, located on the principal road from northern South Vietnam into Laos
- Australians were in the war