This Day In History: January 31

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On this day in 1968, as part of the Tet Offensive, a squad of Viet Cong guerillas attacks the U.S. embassy in Saigon. The soldiers seized the embassy and held it for six hours until an assault force of U.S. paratroopers landed by helicopter on the building's roof and routed the Viet Cong.


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