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Colonel Bui Tin was a top leader in the Communist North Vietnamese army during the Tet Offensive in 1968. And on April 30, 1975, he was the highest ranking officer to reach the presidential palace grounds at the fall of Saigon where he accepted the surrender of the south to end the Vietnam war.
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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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