Battlefield: Vietnam (Part6/12) - The TET Offensive: The Vietcong Attack On Long Binh And Bien Hoa (5) – Chiến Trường: Việt Nam (P6/12) - Cuộc Tấn Công Tết Mậu Thân: Việt Cộng Tấn Công Long Bình Và Biên Hòa (5)

CHIẾN TRANH VIỆT NAM: MẬU THÂN 1968: Battlefield: Vietnam (Part6/12) - Battlefield: Vietnam (Part6/12) - The TET Offensive: Battlefield: Vietnam (Part6/12) - The TET Offensive: The Vietcong Attack On Long Binh And Bien Hoa (5) – Chiến Trường: Việt Nam (P6/12) - Cuộc Tấn Công Tết Mậu Thân: Việt Cộng Tấn Công Long Bình Và Biên Hòa (5)

27:04
15 miles North of Saigon was the massive American Logistical Complex at Long Binh. Nearby was the US base at Bien Hoa. And between them the Headquarters of Second Field Force. And Three Corps. From which the American and South Vietnamese battles in the Saigon area were being coordinated [Music]

27:32 The main attacking forces were two full regiments of the Viet Cong 5th Division. After a heavy rocket and mortar barrage, the 275th assaulted Long Binh from the North side. While a local Force Battalion mounted a diversionary raid and sappers blew up part of a massive ammunition dump outside the main complex. [Music]

27:58 At the same time the 274th hit Bien Hoa and a local Battalion tried to seize Three Corps Headquarters. The American 199th Light Infantry Brigade defending Long Binh was attacked by a mechanized Reserve. Which hit the flank of the Viet Cong attacking Bien Hoa [Music]

28:32 A unit of the 101st Airborne Division was airlifted in while helicopter gunships and more mechanized units joined the day-long battle eventually driving the Viet Cong away from all their objectives [Music]

28:55 For American commanders faced with the huge scale of the Viet Cong assault in and around Saigon. Tet had been an extraordinary test of nerve. It had seemed as if the enemy was everywhere at once. Throughout the day, General Weyand had been directing the American battle even as his own head Quarters at long bin was under attack.

29:34 In the first 2 hours of the Tet offensive Weyand had deployed 5,000 airborne and armored reinforcements. More than 500 armored personnel carriers mounting their deadly 50 caliber machine guns had been sent into combat. So far all the main Viet Cong assaults had been at least contained. But no one doubted there was still hard fighting ahead.

30:17
How would you assess the enemy's uh purposes yesterday and today? Uh The the enemy very deceitfully has taken advantage of the Tet truce. In order to uh create Max maximum consternation. Uh Within South Vietnam
particularly in the populated areas. And my opinion... In spite of the temptation to throw everything he had into the battle against the gorillas. General West Moreland was determined to hold back. He was still convinced that the Tet attacks were a diversion from the main effort, which she expected to come in the Northern border areas. He was deeply reluctant to commit his most mobile forces to Street battles.

31:16 By now West Moreland knew that the Viet Cong attacks were being countered successfully all over the country. But at a great cost to American lives. The South Vietnamese Army was standing up well. The next stage would be to defeat the guerrillas town by town and Battalion by Battalion.

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