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Attack on the US Embassy in Saigon
Part of Tet offensive of the Vietnam War

The embassy after the attack
Date31 January 1968
Location
Embassy of the United States, Saigon, South Vietnam
10°47′00″N 106°42′01″E / 10.7833°N 106.7004°E / 10.7833; 106.7004
Result US military victory
Viet Cong propaganda victory
Belligerents
Tet offensive attack on US Embassy United States Tet offensive attack on US Embassy Viet Cong
Commanders and leaders
Lt Col. Gordon D. Rowe
Captain Robert J. O'Brien
Bay Tuyen 
Ut Nho 
Units involved
716th Military Police Battalion
Marine Security Guard Battalion
C-10 Sapper Battalion
Strength
Initially 3 Marine security guards
2 MPs
19 sappers
Casualties and losses
5 killed 18 killed
1 captured

The Tet offensive attack on the US Embassy took place on the early morning of 31 January 1968 when a 19-man Vietcong (VC) sapper team attempted to seize the US Embassy in Saigon at the start of the VC's Tet offensive. While the VC successfully penetrated the embassy compound, they were unable to enter the chancery building and were pinned down by security forces, with the lone survivor eventually surrendering to US forces. Notwithstanding the attack's failure it had a profound political and psychological impact in the United States.

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