Forty years ago today, Vietnamese Communist forces launched a massive surprise attack against South Vietnamese and foreign forces. The year was 1968 and the the Tet offensive was to turn the tide of Australian and US public sentiment against the war.
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Speaker – Bao Vu, Radio Australia journalist and survivor of Tet offensive; Paul Ham, author of Vietnam: The Australian War; Dr Ron Milam, director of Texas Tech’s Centre for War and Diplomacy in the Post-Vietnam War Era.