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| rdfs:comment | - Reflecting this public outrage the media made a number of iconic news stories including Peter Arnett quoting an unnamed US major as saying, "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." Eddie Adams' iconic image of South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan's live execution of a Vietcong operative was taken in 1968 as was Walter Cronkite's call to honourably exit Vietnam because he thought the war was lost. This negative impression forced the Americans into the Paris peace talks with North Vietnam.
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| Strength | - Australia: 7660
- NVA/VC: 420,000
- New Zealand: 520
- Philippines: 1580
- South Korea: 50,000
- South Vietnam: 820,000
- Thailand: 6000
- US: 549,500
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| Caption | - Cholon after Tet Offensive operations 1968
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| Casualties | - 87388
- 172512
- Unknown
- South Vietnam: 27,915 killed
- US: 16,592 killed
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| Result | - The American war effort in Vietnam peaks in 1968 as the American public support takes a huge hit after the Tet Offensive
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| combatant | - United States
- Republic of China
- Anti-Communist forces:
- Communist forces:
- Khmer Rouge
- Kingdom of Cambodia
- Kingdom of Laos
- Pathet Lao
- Viet Cong
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| abstract | - Reflecting this public outrage the media made a number of iconic news stories including Peter Arnett quoting an unnamed US major as saying, "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." Eddie Adams' iconic image of South Vietnamese General Nguyen Ngoc Loan's live execution of a Vietcong operative was taken in 1968 as was Walter Cronkite's call to honourably exit Vietnam because he thought the war was lost. This negative impression forced the Americans into the Paris peace talks with North Vietnam. US troop numbers peaked in 1968 with President Johnson approving the raising of the maximum number of Americans in Vietnam to 549,500. The year was the most expensive in the Vietnam war with the American spending US$ (US$ in 2018) on the war. The year also became the deadliest of the Vietnam War for America and its allies with 27,915 South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers killed and the Americans suffering 16,592 killed compared to around two hundred thousand of the communist forces killed. The deadliest week of the Vietnam War for the USA was during the Tet Offensive specifically February 11–17, 1968, during which period 543 Americans were killed in action, and 2547 were wounded.
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