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America's Forgotten Vietnamese Victims: Two Men, Two Legs, and Too Much Suffering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Nick Turse  and
Tam Turse
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On January 30-31, 1968, the Tet holiday, the North Vietnamese and the National Liberation Front (NLF, known to Americans as “the Vietcong”) struck at five of the country's six largest cities, 34 provincial capitals, 64 district capitals, and numerous military bases. NLF sappers even briefly captured part of the heavily fortified American embassy compound in the center of the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , February 2008 , e1
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