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Hi War-Stories I have question will u make video about Croatian fight for independence 1991-1995 (against Serbia) it was the biggest war in Europe and destruction after world war 2.
My husband, Dennis Higginbotham was a loader on an M48. He was with the Dreadnought 2nd infantry 34th armor division. (I think I said that right) His tank was hit with an rpg during TET and blew the tank commander completely out and Dennis was blown most of the way out only hanging on with his heels until he could pull himself back inside. It blew his ears out and showered him with shrapnel. He didnt care to talk about it that much so I respected that. He passed June 30th a year ago from heart failure due to damage from agent orange. He was and is my hero. I have his purple heart and cherish it and the sacrifice that he and his brothers in arms gave to that war that was none of our damned biz. I miss him so much....
My condolences and thanks for your husband’s service. The Dreadnoughts were the 2nd Battalion, 34th Armored Regiment (2/34 Armor) assigned to the 25th Infantry Division; one of our companies was attached up north with the 5th Mech. I had the honor of serving as the Battalion Surgeon’s Assistant with the Medical Platoon in 1970. Good and fierce unit; we were used as the hammer when the infantry fixed an NVA Regiment. Battle of the Boli Woods and the Michelin Plantation were just nasty.
Ma'am, God Bless You Always and I'm So Sorry for the loss of your husband . He was Truly a Hero ,along with All his Brothers ! Thank You for his Service and Your Great Sacrifice !!
As a veteran, I visited back to Vietnam 2 times 2017 and 2019, the war is truly gone, this country now is so beautiful and peaceful, people are so kind , I love Pho Bo
The country has always been beautiful, and the people have always been nice. That they now live so peacefully is not thanks to the US. By the way, have you been to the areas you sprayed with Agent Orange? locutus sum.
@@argr please don't blame him for what happened, if you must blame the USA government that still to this day are doing the world dirty...he was just a soldier..I also know that the individual soldier has a roll to play but the people in power that don't go out & fight are the real dirty one's.... Trumpy grumpy is a big example of a dirty man in power...🐷 Blessings to you and your family 🙏😇🕊️
@@argr That's fair if you blame the US for it since they did develop, produce then drop Agent Orange. Blaming some random infantryman for it is like blaming a factory worker when your phone's design is bad.
I always felt horrible for you gentlemen. Fight a war you didn't want come home to a country that despised you for it. And then 30 yrs later watch a our troops get treated with deserved respect upon their returns. More salt on the wound. Non the less. I admire every single one that served in Nam. You are a special type of American. Thank you.
I don’t know who’s in charge of picking vets to be on this show but each and every one of them, throughout the whole series, seems like an absolute pleasure to be around.
Maybe now that they have 50 years of life experience and have finally curbed their drinking or heroin addictions. I'm sure that being married to many of these guys wouldn't be pleasant.
My dad was and wasn’t a pleasure. They don’t call whiskey spirits for no reason. Mostly mean and violent spirits. A few time fun, loving and generous. Very rare though.
I was a driver of the M48A1 in the 11th ACR. So Sorry about your dad. I got in country August 68. I think the film really short-changed a lot of us in armor.
Sorry about your father my granddaddy made it home from Vietnam but it ended up killing him with addiction guess he got on that china smack or whatever they use to call it over there just found out tho he was macv sog he never talked about it
I was a tanker on the 40mm dusters, 144th brigade, during all that. Friggin hugh battles during TET. Charlie just blew everything all the way up. Dug a vast network of tunnels under our base at plieku and sappers came out and blew up the fuel blisters, the ammo dump, all the 100's of helicopters, coupla dozen Phantom F4 jets, the commo antenna arrays and even the officers mess hall. When the ammo dump blew up I thought it was an atom bomb. We ran out of ammo at dawn. A thousand dead NVA everywhere all over the base. Convoys attacked everywhere on highway 9. Took us 5 days to go 45 miles to Quin Yong to rotate out of country. Snipers, road mines, rockets and mortars all the way. We made it though and I kissed the ground at the airport in Seattle when arriving home. Enjoy your freedom, it's worth more than you could ever imagine.
If you were there against your will, all my respects and condolences for your fallen friends. If you chose to go, you just got what you deserved. 2 million civilian deaths come at a high price.
@@juliuslambert9226 I didn’t volunteer to go over but ended up fighting in IV Corps. Be aware that the North killed more civilians purposefully than we did by mistake. And don’t think that you have the moral high ground to say what you did, not having been there. I/we fought to survive and if you were in that position so would you.
@@spi1141 The North did not kill civilians on purpose. They killed traitors who collaborated with foreigners to kill their families -- a very big difference!
Great video. My dad was in Vietnam in 68. I believe he was in the 32nd armored division. Like most guys he didn’t talk about his time in Vietnam. Unfortunately he passed away when I was 24. I can’t imagine what you guys went through. God bless each and everyone one of you that served.
there is/was no 32nd armored Div...there was a 2/34th Armor Battalion but I spent 22+years in and around Armor and Cav units and your numbers are not correct
I was born in central highland on the tet offensive I'm a montagnard from the Jeh tribes my dad fought with the beret but was kill in Dak Pek in the beret fort on the tet.Went back home in 1995.Beautiful but can still see the trees that was hit by agent orange. Maybe the tree have ben cut down or the leaves gotten green.I also seen u.s tanks going through Kontum .Anyway thankyou all who was there to help the montagnards.If you go back that smell I can still remember that I cant explained I'm adopted so this is my name.My Jeh name is Thieu.Semper Fi from a desert storm vet.God blessed
My grandpa was a Major in the ARVN. He didn’t talk about his service, but I believe he fought in at least 1 of the major battles. After my grandpa moved to SF in 1984, he lived there with my family until December 30, 2020 where he passed away. When I grow up, I want to be a fighter pilot in the Navy or Air Force to continue the military legacy.
21:04 honestly whenever you see a tank either in games or as right here its just a scary thing, i got goosebumps when that tank was moving its turret straight at the viewer/camera
Up close, when they are on the move, they are intimidating. When the gun fires, you think you'll go deaf... I served with these tanks (M 48) much later than the Vietnam War, in relative peace time (crisis in the Aegean, 1996) in the Greek army. Our tanks had been given to us by Nixon after war. We had upgraded them by then, but they always looked pretty much like you see them here. These are M48 A3. We had the A5 upgrade with a bigger gun. The tanks, the canteens, the same model boots and the use of the M1 helmet, made our service look like a Vietnam movie...
My relative is on the Traveling Vietnam War Memorial. He represent Hawai'i. He died in this offensive. Thank you brave man & woman. Thank you for your service! TANKERS LEAD THE WAY 👊😎
@@thatguy22441 True. Militarily, the US won just about every battle and inflicted heavy casualty on the NVA. North Vietnam could not overrun South Vietnam until 2 years after the US withdrew due to political reasons, leaving South Vietnam to fight alone against a far more numerical superior enemy.
@@lancecahill5486 It's the difference between tactics and strategy. We had good tactics and poor (sometimes non-existent) strategy. The Vietnamese had mediocre tactics but a solid strategy. That's why we won battles but lost the war, and the Vietnamese lost battles, but won the war.
What I often think about as an Austrian: there was the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968 by the Warsaw Pact. Austria was extremely threatened. The Russian tanks made wheelies on our border. Eastern Austria (Western Austria is as invulnerable as Switzerland). Reasons for this weren't a problem. We took in Czech dissidents, let them run radio stations ... At the same time, however, there was the "Moscow paralysis" to your unexpectedly brutal suppression of the Tet offensive. Maybe that was our luck. You might have saved us (once again). it is of course only a hypothesis with two coincidents.
The US intervened in Vietnam after World War 2 with helping France invade Vietnam. The Vietnam War was just a prolonged war of the Indochina War 1 with the participation of the US. Their minions in South Vietnam was nothing without America.
I often think , the USA fought the Vietnam war to prevent communism , but if France had not suppressed vietnamese self determination with support from USA and later direct involvement , support for a corrupt government . Would the vietnamese people have ever gone communist , they just wanted to be free , was it the war to suppress self identity that caused the war
Here for the vet comments, thank you all for your service. I watched you guys when I was a kid in the 80's, and could see then what that war could do to a guy who was at that time in their 30's or early 40's. War sucks, but thank you again!
I’m 75 years old now and was a very small active military cog in that awful conflict when I was a young man. But to this day the question continues to plague me, what the war was fought for, and I don’t think anyone else does either. I’m sure if you’re a born and raised Vietnamese communist you’d say you’re quite sure you know the answer to the question; But would that really be the truth? Why did millions die in Vietnam. My days there decades ago still haunt me and the question of why so many lives had to be damaged or snuffed out still stays in my mind.
I am history Buff and grandson of a Vet of Vietnam, did these guys survive a lot more than ground troops??? I am curious, thanks for giving my parents a life to give me life. Thank y'all for everything
I served along the DMZ at Camp JJ Carroll as a Heavy Artillery Surveyor where we had 16 Self-propelled 175mm Howitzers, 2nd Btn. 94th Arty. Got there April 1968 and visited Hue right after Tet. 13 Months later I came home. Peace, is what I told the Kindergarten class today when asked about my service.
@@MrWolfheart111 North/South distinctions dont exist anymore. Its just vietnam. Alot of Vietnamese would rather the North not win. But so far, it is what it is. Thankfully Ho Chih Minh wasn't much of a commie, and was more concerned about anti-imperialism rather than communism. Didnt end up like North Korea as a result. If US politicians weren't braindead, the war wouldn't of happened.
@@honkhonk8009 in my opinion, North shouldn’t invite south. Let north and south people decide what system they want to live under. And have a peaceful competition economically. After millions of deaths, I believe Vietnamese people still prefer American ways of living, not The socialist poverty.
He would gladly told you more war stories, but he probably thought you weren't interested. My dad was in the Korean War and he never told me any stories about it until I was in my 30's. Turns out he thought I never wanted to hear his stories. He finally told me how he once came a hairs length from getting a sniper's bullet through his head. The bullet hit the guy next to him. I encouraged him a bit and he went on and talked and talked about his war experiences.
@@saffronsworld1508 he told me he didn't like talking about it because it gave him flashbacks and nightmares. He has told me a few stories but only 1 about his time as a tanker. his other 2 tours is where I heard the most.
Russian Made the PT-76 is a Light Amphibious Tank can only used in Night Action in the Offemsive against US Special forces camp in Ben hut but it was repel by number of US Made M48 Patton were dug in around the Ben hut . Theres reason why the North Vietnamese Army or NVA used the PT-76 instead of T54/55 Tanks . Because Ho Chi Minh trail is Rugged terrain PT-76 Light tank is more compitable these kind of operation
It's strange how time seems to ultimately make every epoch of history pale into insignificance. The Vietnam War once consumed the nightly news, turning strange and obscure place names like Hue, Da Nang, and Hanoi into household language, coloured by the most graphic images of destruction and suffering. Still the slaughter continues in an alternate theatre, only the place names have changed...
It seems like wherever America is around it's likely to be a war that they will lose for shore, because the enemy is fighting in there owne ground and the American tactics are obsolete because they think that technology will win the war. ROUNG! They have to rethink their way of intervine in a conflict like Russia do it. Things are diferent today than they were in ww2 and still they use the same mode of combat. ROUNG AGAIN!
Lol its even wierder with the Internet. Everybody knows about how nationalistic Turks are, their beef with Greece, and how chaotic the Balkans are now. Even though WW2 was way before Vietnam, everybody knows every detail about WW2. Its just such a popular thing in our modern minds for whatever reason. I blame videogames lmfao. War Thunder especially. The sheer amount of tankers iv talked to that grinded tf out that game is insane.
My first year in the Army was in 1993. My platoon sgt was a Ex Marine who landed one week before Tet. He told me they joked how quiet it was when he showed up. The day of Tet he had a B40 rocket land right next to him and did not explode. He loved the war and wanted to help out as much as he could.
This channel doesn't do their own stories or film documentaries. They simply buy a license from other film production companies so they can show their documentaries on this UA-cam channel.
i was on a m60 52 ton tank in kun toom provence pleiku, never had a chance to enguage a T62 enemy tank , plenty of NVA around lz black hawk, LZ oasis, we destroyed vc base camps near dak tko. 4th inf div. B co. 10 ACR.
Explain to me when the army shipped M60 tanks to Vietnam? Maybe somebody else knows? Just asking as an 1811 marine Corps tanker! I was not aware Of any M 60s in Country.
there was a great documentary about the vietnam war on the french television channel "arte", there were people interviewed from both side, nva, arvn, vietcong, us military, politicians and so on
Thanks, I will check it out. It's rarely that any documentary that would present a balanced view from all sides of the war, as history is almost always written solely by the victors.
@@lancecahill5486 the worst thing about the documentary is, that i realised that the vietnam war was more a image problem for the president rather than they care about the people it self
@@MrBlonde294 LBJ was drawing up list of targets himself, and rules of engagement must be approved by him. The restrictive and self-imposed ROEs caused many unnecessary losses to the USAF and USN during the airwar over North Vietnam. Worse, the ROEs made the North Vietnamese realized that the US was fighting with hands tying behind its back and that it could win the war, which it eventually did. In my opinion, LBJ was the worst wartime president in US history.
A fundamental question remains: why did North Vietnam and the VC launch the Tet offensive? Many of the Americans who have studied this question say they (North Vietnam and the VC) believed they could achieve a decisive military victory. I don’t think they were that naïve. I think they launched the offensive to show the American public that they were much stronger than LBJ claimed, thereby weaken support for the war among the US general public, which would strengthen their position at the bargaining table (the “peace talks” in Paris). I am reminded of a North Vietnam general who early in the war said "This will be a long war. Americans do not like long wars. That is why we will win."
No. The North Vietnamese believed that by launching the Tet offensive, they would cause an uprising by the South Vietnamese to overthrow the South Vietnamese government, but that never happened. At the end, the NVA and Vietcong were decimated, their underground and undercover infrastructure destroyed.
@@lancecahill5486 The North Vietnamese leadership has consistently said the uprising scenario was their intention. But I don’t think that was a reasonable expectation, given the actual conditions “on the ground”. On the other hand, they may have believed that for ideological reasons.
@@morriswilburn9858 You are correct. Base on their ideology, the North Vietnamese were brainwashed into believing that their system of government is far superior than the system that existed in the South, and that South Vietnamese would embrace it. They were in for a rude awakening when the uprising that they expected never materialized. It took 2 more attempts, one in 1972 and one in 1975 (after the total withdrawal of US forces in 1973), for the NVA to take over South Vietnam.
@@lancecahill5486 No they believed the independence fervour would give them a massive uprising considering the fact many enough joined the VC due to US operations in South Vietnam. You are wrongly thinking the North were purely a ideological machine.
@@linh97le North Vietnam built its system and society strictly based on communist ideology. It brainwashed the North Vietnamese into thinking that they were "liberating" South Vietnam, and that the Tet offensive would serve as a catalyst for an uprising, which did not happen. Instead South Vietnamese rallied around their government to defeat the NVA and Vietcong, by inflicting heavy casualties on them. Had the Vietcong had the real support from the people, South Vietnam would have fallen into communist hands in 1968. The North tried again with the Easter offensive in 1972, and that attempt also failed as the South Vietnamese Army fought back and repelled the invasion from the North. In both 1968 and 1972, South Vietnamese fled from the advancing NVA instead of welcoming them as liberators.
my Uncle Ralph wickham and my hero ran over a mine a was burnt beyond repair..he survived until he got to to states ling enough for my aunt and Grandma to see and say their goodbyes to him..they never talked about it other than what i just told you..i don't know about his mates ..i have his tags and the Vietnamese money that was in his pocket that horrible day..i always pray thst the rest of the crew survived because that how he would have wanted it..he was a hero in life putting everyone else first always...i miss you ..uncle ralph Wickham..rip 67 nam......
This is the first time I have heard of the heroism of soldiers invading a country that has not even declared war on them. Thank God, it was the heroism of the Vietnamese, against the most powerful army in the world, that made the difference. However, I have great respect for all the Americans who were forced to go.
I tell you a story about my grandma, she was 16 and at that time, France still occupied my country. Onetime, she was brought to rice field and she recognized how bad the landlords treated farmers in the rice fields and how bad the French treated Vietnamese. So she thought something must change. Then Ho Chi Minh appeared and gave her the belief and the hope about the independence of our nation. So She followed him and let her sons, her daughters to fight for the independence of my country. She always mentioned that she didn't care much about communism or liberalism side. She always wish for the independence of my country and Ho Chi Minh is the frontier. But now it is peaceful in every corners in VN and I love to listen to her stories about her life when she was young :D I love you grandma.
I was in Vietnam as a US Marine from Jan '69-Aug '70. Your grandmother told you much closer to the truth than I see in most of these comments. Ho Chi Minh & the Viet Minh rescued Allied pilots (mostly British) during WWII & helped hide or get them back to their own units. The French had colonized Vietnam since mid 18th century for exploitation of the rubber plantations & recreation @ the expense of the peasants. I saw some of the lavish French plantations & resorts in the An Hua Mountains (albeit war ravaged). Ho Chi Minh appealed to the U.S. in 1946 after WWII to help remove the French & let Vietnam self determine its own gov't, even going so far as to use the U.S. Declaration of Independence as its model. Eisenhower was more concerned with appeasing the French & keeping Degaulle happy as an ally in Europe rather than rewarding an ally from WWII that had proven reliable. The Vietnamese had been @ odds with China for centuries & had less interest in the Soviet Union @ the end of WWII & more with the U.S. Ho Chi Minh wanted the same thing for Vietnam that the U.S. had fought for in 1776--independence from a foreign gov't. This is not comprehensive, but outcome could have been much different if U.S. had not worried so much about an ally that half its citizens sided with the Nazis. My respects to your grandmother.
Yeah, peaceful after a mass murder campaign brought out by the Vietnamese Government against their own peaple who dated oppose them, and that was after they attacked and used civilians as Cannon-fodder, using tactics that would make even the Japanese think it's barbaric. Nothing is more painful to me that to think if all those peaple we left to die just because some stupid naive children at home though war was bad and somehow we were responsible for the atrocities of the other side.
@@culturalliberator9425 If Truman & Eisenhower had kept a commitment 1st proposed by Woodrow Wilson in 1920 @ the League of Nations & supported by F.D. Roosevelt during WWII, to eliminate all Colonial Powers, including the French in Vietnam, the U.S. would not have had a reason to be there. Ho Chi Minh & the Viet Minh had rescued Allied pilots from the Japanese during WWII & the U.S. & Allies agreed to support the Vietnamese in achieving independence after the war, but the U.S. under Truman & Eisenhower reneged & ignored Ho Chi Minh's pleas for 7 years & were more concerned with keeping France as an ally in Europe. Ho Chi Minhs original declaration of Independence in 1946 was based on the U.S.'s own. In the summer of 1970, over 50,000+ of those protesting the war & marching in Washington D.C. were Vietnam Veterans Against the War, returning over 100+ Medals of Honor & other combat related awards. We were tired of fighting a war we had no business being involved in & no clear reason to continue dying in. The dying & maiming on both sides was truly horrible. I was there as a Marine from Jan '69-Aug '70--thru 1968--24,000 Americans died--1969-'72-- 34,000 more Americans died. It was way past time to end our involvement.
@@sgt.duke.mc_50 I never said I was a fan of the war, but the truth is we had a promise to the peaple of South Vietnam, while we pulled some of the out we left many more to die. Things aren't so simple, all the things you said are true but don't shadow anything I said. Infact by all accounts that war would have been ours, just looking at the kill ratio would tell you that. Vietnam was a tuff war but it's way WAY blown out of proportion due to everyone being against it at the time, and still today. I'd like to go and ask some of the Vietnamese who supported us during the war and how they feel today but... Oh, their all dead. Fantastic, well we did pull some of them out but you get my point. I don't know how else to put this the North Vietnam were akin to Nazis but far worse in how they treated their own peaple, we were the good guys, very simple, if you like to say we didn't have a right to be there that's fine, but we were still the good guys.
@@culturalliberator9425 If Truman & Eisenhower had honored prior commitment to assist Vietnam getting out from under French colonists rule (treated the Vietnamese as servants in their own country) there would not have been a North & South Vietnam. After the Viet Minh defeated the French @ Dien Bien Phu (1953), Eisenhower & United Nations divided @ 17th parallel creating North & South in 1953. Eisenhower then committed the O.S.S.(forerunner to C.I.A.) to the South to create a Gov't with Diem as President, who was corrupted & killed by C.I.A. later & installed Thu, as President, who lasted till the fall of Saigon. No one is denigrating the American ground troops. When U.S. pulled out, the South Vietnamese were advised years in advance & had received American military advisors for @ least 18 years to train their Army which had the 2nd largest Air Force in the world & largest & most well armed Army & Navy in Southeast Asia. U.S. hardly left them like babies in a rice paddy to be slaughtered. The American fighting man acquitted themselves well, it was politicians that prosecuted a war that WAS illegal. Patriotism is admirable, but a blind alliance is a dangerous thing. Have a good day.
I love Felixstowe! Great childhood memories of playing the arcades and rides at Charlie Mannings, and crabbing off the jetty at the older end of the town 🙂
The Tet Offensive proves that you cannot war against someone and never attack their home base if you are ever going to win a war. Wars are never won if you are only allowed to defend and never attack.
Very true. South Vietnam, with the help of the US and other nations (Australia. South Korea, New Zealand, Thailand etc.) were fighting a defensive war against North Vietnam supported by the Soviet Bloc countries (the USSR, China, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Cuba etc.). The South Vietnamese army never crossed the 17 parallel and attacked North Vietnam, whereas, the North Vietnamese army invaded South Vietnam 3 times in 1968, 1972 and finally in 1975.
@@vivelarevolution2835 Why would the South Vietnamese participate in an election that was agreed upon solely between the French and the communist North Vietnamese, and one that had no input whatsoever from South Vietnamese? Let's put it this way, would the North Vietnamese participate in an election that was setup by the Americans and South Vietnamese?
✌️🇺🇸 God Bless all of our Brave Vietnam Veterans...Forever. lost my first love in the year of 68. Never will I forget him and his beautiful smile....a special place in my heart forever.💞
@@christopherfranklin1881 The people occupying Vietnam? Real “heroes”. If they had left Vietnam, no one would have died. French, American or Vietnamese.
I must say that the special force Lt longgear in 21:09 sees his life in combat just like we play call of duty. amazing breed of soldier he is, never cross in his mind to tuck tail and run or even to surrender.
My dad was a loader/gunner and driver of an M48 and M60 patton tank when he was drafted into the army just after the TET offensive he was part of 2nd squadron 10th cavalry
Exception: September 1968, A -1st 15th Arty 155 SP DakTo, special forces firebase. Replacing previous Arty Battery taken out by NVA rockets. Broad daylight, two tanks appear from the jungle in front of us 1500 yards on the road up to the fire base. The gates to the fire base open and our tanks go through firing at what we finally realized where not our tanks. They destroyed one the other disappeared into the jungle and was never found
I have a proposition, you know the show dogfights, I would like you to remake it but with more stuff like the battle of britain, d-day, the skies over poland, dogfights over the soviet union, etc, I really like the show.
In 1972, the NVA moved tanks against the city of An Loc and prepositioned T-54's just outside Saigon. I believe their hope was that after a success at An Loc they could quickly move their forces down the 60 miles to Saigon and take it. Because of the resistance of the South Vietnamese forces in the town PLUS the pounding of the encircling NVA troops by B-52's they were forced to withdraw back into Cambodia, along with their tanks poised outside Saigon.
@@jeambeam3173 The Battle at Khe Sahn was during the Tet Offensive of 1968 and was considered, by historians, to be a distraction for their attacks on other parts of Vietnam. The battle of An Loc was fought in 1972 and was a major front for the massive North Vietnamese invasion of the South that year.
The PT-76 armor could be easily penetrated by the M72 LAW (Light Anti-Tank weapon) which uses a 66mm warhead, with a penetration of up to 300mm. It didn't work for Lt. Longgrear because the first PT-76 was too close and the warhead did not have sufficient momentum.
I'm fairly certain it's because of bad technique. Looks like he grips the law wrong and therefor the rocket has the wrong angle. It's a good example of bad training, and why the US was defeated by the Vietnamese in the American war.
@@woutkoopman Sure, you know how to use a anti-tank rocket much better than a Special Force soldier? Where did you get your training from? XBox Series X ox or PlayStation 5? Maybe you can share your immense knowledge with the Green Berets. I'm sure they would appreciate it.
@@lancecahill5486 Dude you are mentioning insufficient momentum when talking about HEAT rounds! You are not credible to discuss with at all. In fact you either a bot or an US apologist.
@TJ Murphy The video only shows what happened in the first region of SVN. In " bloody summer " 1972 ,In the 2nd and 3rd regions of SVN, we destroyed many T 54 with M-72 , anti- tank rocket launchers .The city An Loc ,Binh Long province ,West side of Saigon city, could not stand without M- 72 when besieged by 3 NVN divisions + tanks + powerful artilleries. The 5th Infantry Division/SVN was in charge of the part and I served in that Division.
Man you gotta admire the vietnamese they took on the japanese empire, the french, the US and none were able to break them. Those people were true warriors
You right .Vietnamese people are not afraid to die when they have to fight to protect their country.That's why after 1000 years of Chinese domination, the Vietnamese regained their independence with their own sacrifices!
GREAT! Finally somebody recognizing that the Americans are NOT that greatest in many things without other's help, like they say they're. Just remember the riot 01/06/21 (what a shame).
Seems like from this scenario, we should see a tank enthusiasts' debate as to who had the "best armor", like we still see debated over the WW2 tanks. Typically it goes that the side that lost actually had the superior weapons with "what if they had been used differently" stuff.
My uncle was kia near pleiku central highlands South-Vietnam mid 3/1968 @ tail end of tet. He was with 1st cav. Not to mention several neighbors sons and freinds bros. that were there. They came back changed!
They did what their country asked them to do, and paid a personal price for it. But they did give South Vietnam almost 20 years if freedom from communism. For that, they should be appreciated.
@Uncle Ho South Vietnam had a free press and an opposition party. They had elections and even a couple of coup d'etat. People could stage demonstrations on the streets. None of which ever existed in the North and even today. The freedom that South Vietnamese had, as relative as it was, was far more than the North Vietnamese had under communist rules, which was none.
@Uncle Ho Catholic churches and Buddhist temples existed in every town and sometimes villages all over South Vietnam. Can you say that about North Vietnam? No, you can't. There were numerous independent newspapers that were published in South Vietnam that expressed a variety of views. Can you say that about North Vietnam? You can't, because information was (and still is) strictly controlled by the communist party. There were (and probably still is) only one newspaper and one radio network in North Vietnam that were part of the propaganda machine, controlled by the Politburo. By the way, my country, the United States of America, is not perfect, but at least, I can publicly criticized my government without repercussions, can you do the same with yours? Here in America, we can change president every 4 years, and a president can only serve a maximum of 2 terms (8 years). How long has the upper echelon of your government served? I looked up and found several examples. One was Le Duan, who served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1960 until his death in 1986. So it seems like your political leaders tend to serve for life. It also indicates that there has not been any free election in Vietnam, ever. So yes, our election system has some flaws, but it's still much better than yours.
@@lancecahill5486 what we who fought that war gave the ppl of VN was 3M grave stones with but one work on them Hero. Uncle HO after WW2 ask US to help make VN a free nation not a colony of France. Truman said no to him the French would be back as the over loads of the ppl of VN, Cam, Liao. A few yr later the French were thrown out by the ppl of VN. Then those Vietnamese who had been christianized did not want the Buddhist to usurper the power they had gained under the French so that small minority dacite to divide nation. When I say small minority I mean about somewhere around 150,000 ppl. U need to read a lot more of the history of VN so maybe u can understand that a vast majority of them want Ho to lead them after the French had been kicked out. This is why those who took over from French in SVN never allowed a free election. Ho did not take power in NVN the was elected to it unlike the christians running the south who just stayed running that half of the nation after French left.
The thing about urban tank warfare is you better have good grunt support because tank main guns can’t aim high or low, and open hatches mean dead loaders and commanders for snipers from higher level buildings…..this from a 7yr tanker.
I GET VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR. MY DAD WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE ARMY INFANTRY. HE WAS DEPLOYED TO DA NANG AND WE WERE SENT TO LIVE IN PUERTO WHERE MOST OF MY FAMILY WAS BORN JUST IN CASE MY DAD DID NOT SURVIVE HIS DEPLOYMENT.(1967-68). HE SURVIVED AND WE WERE THEN DEPLOYED TO FT. AMADOR , CANAL ZONE , PANAMA. I THANK GOD FOR AMERICA AND THE MEN AND WOMEN OF VALOR THAT SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN DEFENSE OF THE GREATEST CIVILIZATION IN HUMAN HISTORY , AND THE FAMILIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THAT SUFFERED THE TRAUMA OF IT ALL. "FREEDOM IS NOT FREE"... (KOREAN WAR MEMORIAL IN D.C.) !!! TO ALL MILITARY... THANK YOU !!! ELIJAH MATTHEW 17:11 DIVINE INTERVENTION IS IMMINENT !!! THE END OF SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IS AT HAND !!!
The beauty of the “Duster” tank was incredible. BUT the real tank war in SVN was written by Australians using Centurion tanks, they tore apart the VC and Regular bunker systems, immune to the RPGs, carrying the 30 cal and 50 cal secondary weapons, they were incredibly effective in Jungle, they never lost a tank and killed a lot of VC
The lost episode of "Greatest tank battles". This ep has never been shown on Military channel while all the other ones have been. The only place Americans can watch is here on YT
I was going through the Army Induction Center in 1970. I wanted be in a tank. My brother in law was a "tunnel rat" for three tours in Vietnam. Bravest guy I ever met. My personal favorite weapon was the 106 mm Ontos. During the Tet Offensive, the street to street offensive in Hue ,the Marines had these small lightly armored tracked goofy vehicles that mounted 6 106 mm recoiless rifles. The NVA would fortify a large building ,and then the Marines found they could fire the.50 cal spotting rifle and when that tracer round was halfway down the street the Ontos gunner would let loose the recoiless rifle round, one ,two or all six at once. The building would be instant rubble. The NVA and VC would quickly try to vacate the premises once they saw just the spotting round come through a window. An amazingly destructive little piece of ordinance. I would like choke the idiots who made this little weapon system, well just the guys who decided to put such thin armor on it. I am now 70, a former defense contractor and armor developer in the Middle East , and worked on explosives suppression technology for an anti terrorist function. But my total fascination with the recoiled rifles knows no bounds.
Thank you for your service! My Dad is 69 years old but just started college in 1969. One question, about the artillery piece you called recoiled, did u mean recoil less? Or did they have recoil?
@@danielk4331 The ' recoilless rifle ' was basically a metal tube that acted as a rocket launcher . I was a 90 mm Recoilless Rifle gunner for a while in the U. S. Army's 7th Division , and was able to fire a few live rounds with the " 90 gun ". You had to check the area behind you when you fired that thing , because the backblast of the rocket leaving the tube was major . The gun would shudder a bit when you fired it , but no recoil at all . Just a horrific roar at both ends and another serious explosion on the target . A very effective weapon that the Army was forced to retire in favor of the TOW and the Dragon wire guided anti -- tank weapons .
They should have mounted the 106 RR on every vehicle the Army had . My friend Thomas Brooks , from Garland , Texas , was our top 106 gunner in the 3rd Brigade of the First Cav . The spotting round was great because you could sight right in with a couple of .50 caliber rounds , then let go with the main round . Scratch one tank .
Colin Powell was fanatical on this point with Bush Snr ahead of Iraq I am sure you know. Totally fluffed the Gulf War by not committing to it properly - especially the follow up. My ex colleagues who served in Iraq in the 2000s told me nobody but nobody who was inside Iraq and anti Hussein trusted them. When I was in Afghan 2010/11 the US guys (Some both Gulf and Iraq vets) were always mentioning it. Afghan was different but the ‘don’t trust them’ is now the ‘image’ we have with whoever we try to work with. The end of Afghan just fireproofed their thinking in my opinion - subjective as it is I admit.
Started earlier than that. Few people know it, but the British were there before the French, just after WW2 and used Japanese troops to do most of the fighting - see ua-cam.com/video/1w-cv2CJbfI/v-deo.html
I’m very impressed with the Vietnamese fighting spirit. Today’s U.S. citizen should take note of their circumstance, study it and employ it into their everyday life.
Served with the Marines CAG (CAP) units in Quang Tri 1969. Video well done, what caught my ear was the fact that they had to get permission to fire on that building. I remember that so well. We had to get permission as well, probably one of the dumbest rules of engagement I've ever been involved in. Welcome Home Brothers.
There were many more insane, restrictive and self-imposed rules of engagement such as ones that prohibited the USAF and USN from attacking SAM sites that were under construction, or that MiG airfields at Kep and Phuc Yen were kept off limit, or that US pilots were not allowed to fire back at the SAM and AAvA sites at the Gia Lam International Airfield even when fired upon, because the airfield was supposed to be a civilian one, despite the fact it was heavily protect by an air defense system. The ROEs were written by civilians at the Pentagon whose guidance was based on political motive instead of military doctrine. The North Vietnamese took full advantage of the ROEs and worse, they were emboldened by the notion that the civilians in the White House and the DoD were not serious about winning the war.
Because Vietnam have no fronts unlike in WW2 and Korea War they are fronts US Military Conventional.way. US Military dont really analyze well that Vietnam can fight for independence and unify into one Vietnam for 10, 20 and 30 yrs or even more that the US Military cant
nice video about tanks attacks between US army as mixed several types units ( M-60 Patton tanks) also Northern Vietnam army (infantry + tanks units ) or Vet-COHNG Infantry with tanks ,Might be Southern Vietnam army had M-48 tank ) which was less quality than M-60 Patton tanks for that South Vietnam armies defeated in fast upgrades until Large & Famous disasters faced civilian peoples in Southern Vietnam cities & SAYGOON capital (TWO millions Executed & TWO Millions Rans away to width Pacific Ocean with maximum horrible & terrifying situations (Huge Numbers of Victims of USA cold war game in Vietnam )
The U. S. military was fighting the Vietnam war with one hand tied. How could it win? Not knowing a nation's history would result in a military failure for conquering powers.
I don't believe that the south Vietnamese people were not as committed to victory like the north. I believe that the war was the first to be truly condemned by both American leadership and American people; our troops were abandoned by both. Still, I think what made the greatest difference was unconventional warfare, giving considerable advantage to the north.
Because Ho Chin Minh trail is a rugged mountanous of thick jungle vegetation and the North have the advantage and upperhand they know these rugged mountainous thick jungke vegetation since after the defeat French involvement in Vietnam 195
When one Democratic Peoples of Vietnam or DPV thats North Vietnam said America sees Two Vietbam that is North abd South Vietnam while People in the North sees One Vietnam
The south eventually relised that the USA was NOT there the help them, But rule them. They saw with their own eyes civilians from the south get abused by US soldiers. It was in reports and pictures throughout the south at the time. thats why most south vietnames hated the americans as much as the north. Reports of murders, massacres and rapes of south civilians were common.
The Tet Offensive was a major military defeat for the NVA, as it failed to take over South Vietnam while suffering heavy casulaties, as well as the destruction of their undercover operation in South Vietnam, a fact that was acknowledged by the NVA's commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap. But it was a political triumph for North Vietnam, thanks to, ironically, the American press.
@@larrygrecko921 That is true that General Westmoreland gave over optimistic and non -- factual reports about the progress of the war , but the US press was negligent in not reporting the true defeat of the NVA and Vietcong after Tet was over . They lost thousands killed and there was no public uprising as they thought there would be .
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Hi War-Stories I have question will u make video about Croatian fight for independence 1991-1995 (against Serbia) it was the biggest war in Europe and destruction after world war 2.
@@lolofblitz6468 that is the one know one talks about they have no need for revolution lol
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War is an act ofcraziness
My husband, Dennis Higginbotham was a loader on an M48. He was with the Dreadnought 2nd infantry 34th armor division. (I think I said that right) His tank was hit with an rpg during TET and blew the tank commander completely out and Dennis was blown most of the way out only hanging on with his heels until he could pull himself back inside. It blew his ears out and showered him with shrapnel. He didnt care to talk about it that much so I respected that. He passed June 30th a year ago from heart failure due to damage from agent orange. He was and is my hero. I have his purple heart and cherish it and the sacrifice that he and his brothers in arms gave to that war that was none of our damned biz. I miss him so much....
My condolences and admiration for you, must have been a very difficult time for both of you all these years. Have a lovey life.
God bless you both.
My condolences and thanks for your husband’s service. The Dreadnoughts were the 2nd Battalion, 34th Armored Regiment (2/34 Armor) assigned to the 25th Infantry Division; one of our companies was attached up north with the 5th Mech. I had the honor of serving as the Battalion Surgeon’s Assistant with the Medical Platoon in 1970. Good and fierce unit; we were used as the hammer when the infantry fixed an NVA Regiment. Battle of the Boli Woods and the Michelin Plantation were just nasty.
y the f*** did he go to vietnam. he shud have died their in his tsnk
Ma'am, God Bless You Always and I'm So Sorry for the loss of your husband . He was Truly a Hero ,along with All his Brothers ! Thank You for his Service and Your Great Sacrifice !!
As a veteran, I visited back to Vietnam 2 times 2017 and 2019, the war is truly gone, this country now is so beautiful and peaceful, people are so kind , I love Pho Bo
The country has always been beautiful, and the people have always been nice. That they now live so peacefully is not thanks to the US. By the way, have you been to the areas you sprayed with Agent Orange? locutus sum.
@@argr please don't blame him for what happened, if you must blame the USA government that still to this day are doing the world dirty...he was just a soldier..I also know that the individual soldier has a roll to play but the people in power that don't go out & fight are the real dirty one's.... Trumpy grumpy is a big example of a dirty man in power...🐷 Blessings to you and your family 🙏😇🕊️
Thank you for serving.
@@argr You do realize about 2.7 million Americans went to Vietnam, right? Imagine blaming every single one of them for Agent Orange.
@@argr That's fair if you blame the US for it since they did develop, produce then drop Agent Orange. Blaming some random infantryman for it is like blaming a factory worker when your phone's design is bad.
When the Tet Offensive began, I had eight days to go in Viet Nam. Thank-you God for that 707 that carried me home.
I always felt horrible for you gentlemen. Fight a war you didn't want come home to a country that despised you for it. And then 30 yrs later watch a our troops get treated with deserved respect upon their returns. More salt on the wound. Non the less. I admire every single one that served in Nam. You are a special type of American. Thank you.
Thank you for your service sir!!
Amen...
Glad you made it Steve...Where you at..?
Thx you for ur service
I don’t know who’s in charge of picking vets to be on this show but each and every one of them, throughout the whole series, seems like an absolute pleasure to be around.
Maybe now that they have 50 years of life experience and have finally curbed their drinking or heroin addictions.
I'm sure that being married to many of these guys wouldn't be pleasant.
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My dad was and wasn’t a pleasure. They don’t call whiskey spirits for no reason. Mostly mean and violent spirits. A few time fun, loving and generous. Very rare though.
@@МальчикФантам Are really this stupid ????????????
My father Sgt Glenn E Nicholson 11th Armored Cavalry regiment KIA June 5 1968 .. I love you dad
I was a driver of the M48A1 in the 11th ACR. So Sorry about your dad. I got in country August 68. I think the film really short-changed a lot of us in armor.
So sorry about your father. My dad was with the black horse in Vietnam.
Sorry about your father my granddaddy made it home from Vietnam but it ended up killing him with addiction guess he got on that china smack or whatever they use to call it over there just found out tho he was macv sog he never talked about it
I was a tanker on the 40mm dusters, 144th brigade, during all that. Friggin hugh battles during TET. Charlie just blew everything all the way up. Dug a vast network of tunnels under our base at plieku and sappers came out and blew up the fuel blisters, the ammo dump, all the 100's of helicopters, coupla dozen Phantom F4 jets, the commo antenna arrays and even the officers mess hall. When the ammo dump blew up I thought it was an atom bomb. We ran out of ammo at dawn. A thousand dead NVA everywhere all over the base.
Convoys attacked everywhere on highway 9. Took us 5 days to go 45 miles to Quin Yong to rotate out of country. Snipers, road mines, rockets and mortars all the way. We made it though and I kissed the ground at the airport in Seattle when arriving home. Enjoy your freedom, it's worth more than you could ever imagine.
If you were there against your will, all my respects and condolences for your fallen friends. If you chose to go, you just got what you deserved. 2 million civilian deaths come at a high price.
@@juliuslambert9226 I didn’t volunteer to go over but ended up fighting in IV Corps. Be aware that the North killed more civilians purposefully than we did by mistake. And don’t think that you have the moral high ground to say what you did, not having been there. I/we fought to survive and if you were in that position so would you.
God bless you! My uncle was kia mid3/68 tail end of tet near pleiku SouthVietnam!
@@spi1141 The North did not kill civilians on purpose. They killed traitors who collaborated with foreigners to kill their families -- a very big difference!
Thank you for your service!
Great video. My dad was in Vietnam in 68. I believe he was in the 32nd armored division. Like most guys he didn’t talk about his time in Vietnam. Unfortunately he passed away when I was 24. I can’t imagine what you guys went through. God bless each and everyone one of you that served.
there is/was no 32nd armored Div...there was a 2/34th Armor Battalion but I spent 22+years in and around Armor and Cav units and your numbers are not correct
I was born in central highland on the tet offensive I'm a montagnard from the Jeh tribes my dad fought with the beret but was kill in Dak Pek in the beret fort on the tet.Went back home in 1995.Beautiful but can still see the trees that was hit by agent orange. Maybe the tree have ben cut down or the leaves gotten green.I also seen u.s tanks going through Kontum .Anyway thankyou all who was there to help the montagnards.If you go back that smell I can still remember that I cant explained I'm adopted so this is my name.My Jeh name is Thieu.Semper Fi from a desert storm vet.God blessed
God bless your father for his sacrifice The Montagnard were fierce warriors, Do your father proud.
I served with the 11th ACR in III Corps. The Montagnards were terrific people. We loved them.
My grandpa was a Major in the ARVN. He didn’t talk about his service, but I believe he fought in at least 1 of the major battles. After my grandpa moved to SF in 1984, he lived there with my family until December 30, 2020 where he passed away. When I grow up, I want to be a fighter pilot in the Navy or Air Force to continue the military legacy.
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21:04 honestly whenever you see a tank either in games or as right here its just a scary thing, i got goosebumps when that tank was moving its turret straight at the viewer/camera
Up close, when they are on the move, they are intimidating. When the gun fires, you think you'll go deaf... I served with these tanks (M 48) much later than the Vietnam War, in relative peace time (crisis in the Aegean, 1996) in the Greek army. Our tanks had been given to us by Nixon after war. We had upgraded them by then, but they always looked pretty much like you see them here. These are M48 A3. We had the A5 upgrade with a bigger gun. The tanks, the canteens, the same model boots and the use of the M1 helmet, made our service look like a Vietnam movie...
My relative is on the Traveling Vietnam War Memorial.
He represent Hawai'i.
He died in this offensive.
Thank you brave man & woman.
Thank you for your service!
TANKERS LEAD THE WAY
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My father got out three months before Tet. He was lucky as he was flying B-52's.
@@jimbo2900 If he was flying B-52, then he might have never set foot in Vietnam because all B-52 bases were in Thailand.
@@lancecahill5486 Yeah but Linebacker and Linebacker II decimated B-52's
Tet, the classic case of “you win the battle, but lose the PR war.”
No proof that they "won" that battle other than propaganda the Pentagon fed to media and then media fed it to public.
We won every battle, but lost the war.
@@thatguy22441 Were you there? Were you fighting "every battle"? Did you at least witness a battle?
@@thatguy22441 True. Militarily, the US won just about every battle and inflicted heavy casualty on the NVA. North Vietnam could not overrun South Vietnam until 2 years after the US withdrew due to political reasons, leaving South Vietnam to fight alone against a far more numerical superior enemy.
@@lancecahill5486 It's the difference between tactics and strategy. We had good tactics and poor (sometimes non-existent) strategy. The Vietnamese had mediocre tactics but a solid strategy. That's why we won battles but lost the war, and the Vietnamese lost battles, but won the war.
Makes me miss army life. Greatest people you’d ever meet
There was still such American soldier. Pilot Hugh Thompson used helicopter to stop murder in My Lai and take the injured to the emergency room.
some of the dumbest people you ever meet too!
@@_--Reaper--_ He made Yank's face less disgusting
What I often think about as an Austrian: there was the suppression of the Prague Spring in 1968 by the Warsaw Pact. Austria was extremely threatened. The Russian tanks made wheelies on our border. Eastern Austria (Western Austria is as invulnerable as Switzerland). Reasons for this weren't a problem. We took in Czech dissidents, let them run radio stations ... At the same time, however, there was the "Moscow paralysis" to your unexpectedly brutal suppression of the Tet offensive. Maybe that was our luck. You might have saved us (once again). it is of course only a hypothesis with two coincidents.
The US intervened in Vietnam after World War 2 with helping France invade Vietnam. The Vietnam War was just a prolonged war of the Indochina War 1 with the participation of the US. Their minions in South Vietnam was nothing without America.
I often think , the USA fought the Vietnam war to prevent communism , but if France had not suppressed vietnamese self determination with support from USA and later direct involvement , support for a corrupt government . Would the vietnamese people have ever gone communist , they just wanted to be free , was it the war to suppress self identity that caused the war
Here for the vet comments, thank you all for your service. I watched you guys when I was a kid in the 80's, and could see then what that war could do to a guy who was at that time in their 30's or early 40's. War sucks, but thank you again!
I’m 75 years old now and was a very small active military cog in that awful conflict when I was a young man.
But to this day the question continues to plague me, what the war was fought for, and I don’t think anyone else does either.
I’m sure if you’re a born and raised Vietnamese communist you’d say you’re quite sure you know the answer to the question; But would that really be the truth?
Why did millions die in Vietnam.
My days there decades ago still haunt me and the question of why so many lives had to be damaged or snuffed out still stays in my mind.
I am history Buff and grandson of a Vet of Vietnam, did these guys survive a lot more than ground troops??? I am curious, thanks for giving my parents a life to give me life. Thank y'all for everything
I was a tanker with the 11th ACR. We had our share of losses, but I think the infantrymen lost the most.
I served along the DMZ at Camp JJ Carroll as a Heavy Artillery Surveyor where we had 16 Self-propelled 175mm Howitzers, 2nd Btn. 94th Arty. Got there April 1968 and visited Hue right after Tet. 13 Months later I came home. Peace, is what I told the Kindergarten class today when asked about my service.
As a vietnamese thank you for this particular video
are you north or south? you nva?
@@MrWolfheart111 North/South distinctions dont exist anymore. Its just vietnam.
Alot of Vietnamese would rather the North not win. But so far, it is what it is. Thankfully Ho Chih Minh wasn't much of a commie, and was more concerned about anti-imperialism rather than communism. Didnt end up like North Korea as a result. If US politicians weren't braindead, the war wouldn't of happened.
@@honkhonk8009 Why are we not trying to take back the north then? All that killing was in vain?
@@honkhonk8009 in my opinion, North shouldn’t invite south. Let north and south people decide what system they want to live under. And have a peaceful competition economically. After millions of deaths, I believe Vietnamese people still prefer American ways of living, not The socialist poverty.
My dad was one of these guys coming off that boat he used to tell me stories about his experiences in 'nam'
May God bless your dad.
Same here my Pops was there
My dad was on a tank crew during his service in Vietnam for one of his tours. He only ever told me 1 story about it.
He would gladly told you more war stories, but he probably thought you weren't interested. My dad was in the Korean War and he never told me any stories about it until I was in my 30's. Turns out he thought I never wanted to hear his stories. He finally told me how he once came a hairs length from getting a sniper's bullet through his head. The bullet hit the guy next to him. I encouraged him a bit and he went on and talked and talked about his war experiences.
@@saffronsworld1508 he told me he didn't like talking about it because it gave him flashbacks and nightmares. He has told me a few stories but only 1 about his time as a tanker. his other 2 tours is where I heard the most.
This guy survived the war, he always knew when it's time to leave. Respect to him.
A huge heart felt thank you to all our American military that fought and died over there. America loves you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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What do you think when a person from the empire comes to your house with a gun?
I absolutely love that "Whooaaaaaa! That's a russian tank man! That's a PT76"
He sounds like the only guy who enjoyed the war.
God love him!
Technically PT-76 was Polish
But Russia and others used it
Russian Made the PT-76 is a Light Amphibious Tank can only used in Night Action in the Offemsive against US Special forces camp in Ben hut but it was repel by number of US Made M48 Patton were dug in around the Ben hut . Theres reason why the North Vietnamese Army or NVA used the PT-76 instead of T54/55 Tanks . Because Ho Chi Minh trail is Rugged terrain PT-76 Light tank is more compitable these kind of operation
At this time there were no „Russian tanks“. Those were Soviet tanks. Idk why Americans don’t know the difference between Russia and the Soviet Union.
Enemy tank vs. A dude with a LAW....your balls of courage are gigantic my friend.
It's strange how time seems to ultimately make every epoch of history pale into insignificance. The Vietnam War once consumed the nightly news, turning strange and obscure place names like Hue, Da Nang, and Hanoi into household language, coloured by the most graphic images of destruction and suffering. Still the slaughter continues in an alternate theatre, only the place names have changed...
The visuals were there too ... not so since ....everything fed tto our media is sanitized now ...I say show the gore .
It seems like wherever America is around it's likely to be a war that they will lose for shore, because the enemy is fighting in there owne ground and the American tactics are obsolete because they think that technology will win the war. ROUNG! They have to rethink their way of intervine in a conflict like Russia do it. Things are diferent today than they were in ww2 and still they use the same mode of combat. ROUNG AGAIN!
insignificant to you hundreds of thousands of deformed and metaly retarded children are born in Vietnam
Lol its even wierder with the Internet.
Everybody knows about how nationalistic Turks are, their beef with Greece, and how chaotic the Balkans are now.
Even though WW2 was way before Vietnam, everybody knows every detail about WW2. Its just such a popular thing in our modern minds for whatever reason.
I blame videogames lmfao. War Thunder especially. The sheer amount of tankers iv talked to that grinded tf out that game is insane.
Stop censoring images!
It's such a shame we have come to the point where history is censored!
I was born the day Tet started. Got my combat pin Dec 23rd 1989 in Operation Just Cause in Panama...but it was nothing like what these guys went thru.
All people talk about is WW2 and Korea Vietnam heroes ignored terrible
I love watching these tank battle videos. Its a reminder of how brave our fathers were
This is a propaganda video
@@misterbig9025 Yuh got that right bro. Maybe we will see Grenada next. lol
Brave? Sitting in an iron box firing rockets at citizens? They're cowards.
Our godfather invited your brave father out of Vietnam
Very brave. Don't pay any attention to the grifters.
21:00 I have never seen someone so excited to be attacked by tanks. Dude was living it up during a battle. Great storytelling.
My first year in the Army was in 1993. My platoon sgt was a Ex Marine who landed one week before Tet. He told me they joked how quiet it was when he showed up. The day of Tet he had a B40 rocket land right next to him and did not explode. He loved the war and wanted to help out as much as he could.
Impossible to "love" the war and "want to help out"!!! The only way to help out was to end the war! I can recommend a good SHRINK to you!
No war is enjoyable it only brings death and destruction
@@robertroselle3341 Yours?
I love this video!!!! I've watched it at least 5 times!!!!!
Imagine what Stalingrad must have been like....
Excellents documentary . Thanks for sharing .(ARVN veterans) thankyou 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧🇦🇺🇹🇼
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You should do a story on Australian Centurians in Vietnam.
This channel doesn't do their own stories or film documentaries. They simply buy a license from other film production companies so they can show their documentaries on this UA-cam channel.
I was with 1st Tanks,1st Marines 73-77. Our Tanks were M-48's just back from Nam. They were really battle scarred.
i was on a m60 52 ton tank in kun toom provence pleiku, never had a chance to enguage a T62 enemy tank , plenty of NVA around lz black hawk, LZ oasis, we destroyed vc base camps near dak tko. 4th inf div. B co. 10 ACR.
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Explain to me when the army shipped M60 tanks to Vietnam? Maybe somebody else knows? Just asking as an 1811 marine Corps tanker! I was not aware Of any M 60s in Country.
PS: I believe they used T55. Might be wrong! Check your spelling of the province you were in!
I don’t think there were T-62s or M60s in Vietnam.
there was a great documentary about the vietnam war on the french television channel "arte", there were people interviewed from both side, nva, arvn, vietcong, us military, politicians and so on
Thanks, I will check it out. It's rarely that any documentary that would present a balanced view from all sides of the war, as history is almost always written solely by the victors.
@@lancecahill5486 the worst thing about the documentary is, that i realised that the vietnam war was more a image problem for the president rather than they care about the people it self
@@MrBlonde294 LBJ was drawing up list of targets himself, and rules of engagement must be approved by him. The restrictive and self-imposed ROEs caused many unnecessary losses to the USAF and USN during the airwar over North Vietnam. Worse, the ROEs made the North Vietnamese realized that the US was fighting with hands tying behind its back and that it could win the war, which it eventually did. In my opinion, LBJ was the worst wartime president in US history.
A fundamental question remains: why did North Vietnam and the VC launch the Tet offensive? Many of the Americans who have studied this question say they (North Vietnam and the VC) believed they could achieve a decisive military victory. I don’t think they were that naïve. I think they launched the offensive to show the American public that they were much stronger than LBJ claimed, thereby weaken support for the war among the US general public, which would strengthen their position at the bargaining table (the “peace talks” in Paris). I am reminded of a North Vietnam general who early in the war said "This will be a long war. Americans do not like long wars. That is why we will win."
No. The North Vietnamese believed that by launching the Tet offensive, they would cause an uprising by the South Vietnamese to overthrow the South Vietnamese government, but that never happened. At the end, the NVA and Vietcong were decimated, their underground and undercover infrastructure destroyed.
@@lancecahill5486 The North Vietnamese leadership has consistently said the uprising scenario was their intention. But I don’t think that was a reasonable expectation, given the actual conditions “on the ground”. On the other hand, they may have believed that for ideological reasons.
@@morriswilburn9858 You are correct. Base on their ideology, the North Vietnamese were brainwashed into believing that their system of government is far superior than the system that existed in the South, and that South Vietnamese would embrace it. They were in for a rude awakening when the uprising that they expected never materialized. It took 2 more attempts, one in 1972 and one in 1975 (after the total withdrawal of US forces in 1973), for the NVA to take over South Vietnam.
@@lancecahill5486 No they believed the independence fervour would give them a massive uprising considering the fact many enough joined the VC due to US operations in South Vietnam. You are wrongly thinking the North were purely a ideological machine.
@@linh97le North Vietnam built its system and society strictly based on communist ideology. It brainwashed the North Vietnamese into thinking that they were "liberating" South Vietnam, and that the Tet offensive would serve as a catalyst for an uprising, which did not happen. Instead South Vietnamese rallied around their government to defeat the NVA and Vietcong, by inflicting heavy casualties on them. Had the Vietcong had the real support from the people, South Vietnam would have fallen into communist hands in 1968. The North tried again with the Easter offensive in 1972, and that attempt also failed as the South Vietnamese Army fought back and repelled the invasion from the North. In both 1968 and 1972, South Vietnamese fled from the advancing NVA instead of welcoming them as liberators.
Is losing interest in a war the same as losing a war? Fine line there.
Same thing with the soviets in afghanistan. Did the us and the soviets both lose? Or did they simply lose interest?
Lt. Longgrear sounds like a heck of a guy. I could listen to him tell war stories all day.
He was a Green Beret. They always have interesting stories to tell.
Longgear recalling fighting the PT-76s was having the time of his life lmao. what a badass, would definitely want him on my side.
Grate documentary historical information good work.
my
Uncle Ralph wickham and my hero ran over a mine a was burnt beyond repair..he survived until he got to to states ling enough for my aunt and Grandma to see and say their goodbyes to him..they never talked about it other than what i just told you..i don't know about his mates ..i have his tags and the Vietnamese money that was in his pocket that horrible day..i always pray thst the rest of the crew survived because that how he would have wanted it..he was a hero in life putting everyone else first always...i miss you ..uncle ralph Wickham..rip 67 nam......
A Very well presented non-Bias documentary, factual and to the point.
This is the first time I have heard of the heroism of soldiers invading a country that has not even declared war on them. Thank God, it was the heroism of the Vietnamese, against the most powerful army in the world, that made the difference. However, I have great respect for all the Americans who were forced to go.
I tell you a story about my grandma, she was 16 and at that time, France still occupied my country. Onetime, she was brought to rice field and she recognized how bad the landlords treated farmers in the rice fields and how bad the French treated Vietnamese. So she thought something must change. Then Ho Chi Minh appeared and gave her the belief and the hope about the independence of our nation. So She followed him and let her sons, her daughters to fight for the independence of my country. She always mentioned that she didn't care much about communism or liberalism side. She always wish for the independence of my country and Ho Chi Minh is the frontier. But now it is peaceful in every corners in VN and I love to listen to her stories about her life when she was young
:D I love you grandma.
I was in Vietnam as a US Marine from Jan '69-Aug '70. Your grandmother told you much closer to the truth than I see in most of these comments. Ho Chi Minh & the Viet Minh rescued Allied pilots (mostly British) during WWII & helped hide or get them back to their own units. The French had colonized Vietnam since mid 18th century for exploitation of the rubber plantations & recreation @ the expense of the peasants. I saw some of the lavish French plantations & resorts in the An Hua Mountains (albeit war ravaged). Ho Chi Minh appealed to the U.S. in 1946 after WWII to help remove the French & let Vietnam self determine its own gov't, even going so far as to use the U.S. Declaration of Independence as its model. Eisenhower was more concerned with appeasing the French & keeping Degaulle happy as an ally in Europe rather than rewarding an ally from WWII that had proven reliable. The Vietnamese had been @ odds with China for centuries & had less interest in the Soviet Union @ the end of WWII & more with the U.S. Ho Chi Minh wanted the same thing for Vietnam that the U.S. had fought for in 1776--independence from a foreign gov't. This is not comprehensive, but outcome could have been much different if U.S. had not worried so much about an ally that half its citizens sided with the Nazis. My respects to your grandmother.
Yeah, peaceful after a mass murder campaign brought out by the Vietnamese Government against their own peaple who dated oppose them, and that was after they attacked and used civilians as Cannon-fodder, using tactics that would make even the Japanese think it's barbaric.
Nothing is more painful to me that to think if all those peaple we left to die just because some stupid naive children at home though war was bad and somehow we were responsible for the atrocities of the other side.
@@culturalliberator9425 If Truman & Eisenhower had kept a commitment 1st proposed by Woodrow Wilson in 1920 @ the League of Nations & supported by F.D. Roosevelt during WWII, to eliminate all Colonial Powers, including the French in Vietnam, the U.S. would not have had a reason to be there. Ho Chi Minh & the Viet Minh had rescued Allied pilots from the Japanese during WWII & the U.S. & Allies agreed to support the Vietnamese in achieving independence after the war, but the U.S. under Truman & Eisenhower reneged & ignored Ho Chi Minh's pleas for 7 years & were more concerned with keeping France as an ally in Europe. Ho Chi Minhs original declaration of Independence in 1946 was based on the U.S.'s own. In the summer of 1970, over 50,000+ of those protesting the war & marching in Washington D.C. were Vietnam Veterans Against the War, returning over 100+ Medals of Honor & other combat related awards. We were tired of fighting a war we had no business being involved in & no clear reason to continue dying in. The dying & maiming on both sides was truly horrible. I was there as a Marine from Jan '69-Aug '70--thru 1968--24,000 Americans died--1969-'72-- 34,000 more Americans died. It was way past time to end our involvement.
@@sgt.duke.mc_50 I never said I was a fan of the war, but the truth is we had a promise to the peaple of South Vietnam, while we pulled some of the out we left many more to die.
Things aren't so simple, all the things you said are true but don't shadow anything I said. Infact by all accounts that war would have been ours, just looking at the kill ratio would tell you that.
Vietnam was a tuff war but it's way WAY blown out of proportion due to everyone being against it at the time, and still today. I'd like to go and ask some of the Vietnamese who supported us during the war and how they feel today but... Oh, their all dead. Fantastic, well we did pull some of them out but you get my point.
I don't know how else to put this the North Vietnam were akin to Nazis but far worse in how they treated their own peaple, we were the good guys, very simple, if you like to say we didn't have a right to be there that's fine, but we were still the good guys.
@@culturalliberator9425 If Truman & Eisenhower had honored prior commitment to assist Vietnam getting out from under French colonists rule (treated the Vietnamese as servants in their own country) there would not have been a North & South Vietnam. After the Viet Minh defeated the French @ Dien Bien Phu (1953), Eisenhower & United Nations divided @ 17th parallel creating North & South in 1953. Eisenhower then committed the O.S.S.(forerunner to C.I.A.) to the South to create a Gov't with Diem as President, who was corrupted & killed by C.I.A. later & installed Thu, as President, who lasted till the fall of Saigon. No one is denigrating the American ground troops. When U.S. pulled out, the South Vietnamese were advised years in advance & had received American military advisors for @ least 18 years to train their Army which had the 2nd largest Air Force in the world & largest & most well armed Army & Navy in Southeast Asia. U.S. hardly left them like babies in a rice paddy to be slaughtered. The American fighting man acquitted themselves well, it was politicians that prosecuted a war that WAS illegal. Patriotism is admirable, but a blind alliance is a dangerous thing. Have a good day.
I would like you to re upload the top 10 tanks, helicopters and fighting ships please and thank you.
Jesus, LT Longreer comes across as a REALLY gutsy guy. Mind you, he WAS special forces.
I love Felixstowe! Great childhood memories of playing the arcades and rides at Charlie Mannings, and crabbing off the jetty at the older end of the town 🙂
a classic we let them win and now they really have
@@lonnyself3920 another Self! 🙂
@@lonnyself3920 apparently the surname comes from Seawolf if you look it up
@@duncanself5111 yes Viking both side my grandfather my mother family hears 1700 maybe sooner
The Tet Offensive proves that you cannot war against someone and never attack their home base if you are ever going to win a war. Wars are never won if you are only allowed to defend and never attack.
Very true. South Vietnam, with the help of the US and other nations (Australia. South Korea, New Zealand, Thailand etc.) were fighting a defensive war against North Vietnam supported by the Soviet Bloc countries (the USSR, China, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Cuba etc.). The South Vietnamese army never crossed the 17 parallel and attacked North Vietnam, whereas, the North Vietnamese army invaded South Vietnam 3 times in 1968, 1972 and finally in 1975.
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@@lancecahill5486 there was suppose to be an eletion to unite to whole nation under the banner of whose is chosen back in 1956,but it never happens
@@vivelarevolution2835 Why would the South Vietnamese participate in an election that was agreed upon solely between the French and the communist North Vietnamese, and one that had no input whatsoever from South Vietnamese? Let's put it this way, would the North Vietnamese participate in an election that was setup by the Americans and South Vietnamese?
@@lancecahill5486 because south vietnam wasnt a thing when the agreement was signed, they were a puppet government, no more than that
I pent tribute to all GIs who went to VIETNAM and to those who died and disappeared of this war
I 'm french
Don't forget your countrymen who fought in Vietnam in the 1950's. ç'est la guerre, mon ami.
✌️🇺🇸 God Bless all of our Brave Vietnam Veterans...Forever. lost my first love in the year of 68. Never will I forget him and his beautiful smile....a special place in my heart forever.💞
@@christopherfranklin1881 The people occupying Vietnam? Real “heroes”. If they had left Vietnam, no one would have died. French, American or Vietnamese.
This channel had best war documentaries on UA-cam 👌
Try The Great War, WW2 in real time and Mark Felton channels. Plus Soviet storm. All great stuff 👍🏻
The series was one of my favorites when it aired on American Heroes Channel (fka Military Channel) in the U.S.
I must say that the special force Lt longgear in 21:09 sees his life in combat just like we play call of duty. amazing breed of soldier he is, never cross in his mind to tuck tail and run or even to surrender.
No Junior. Its not like Call of Duty I hate to tell you.
My dad was a loader/gunner and driver of an M48 and M60 patton tank when he was drafted into the army just after the TET offensive he was part of 2nd squadron 10th cavalry
Exception: September 1968, A -1st 15th Arty 155 SP DakTo, special forces firebase. Replacing previous Arty Battery taken out by NVA rockets. Broad daylight, two tanks appear from the jungle in front of us 1500 yards on the road up to the fire base. The gates to the fire base open and our tanks go through firing at what we finally realized where not our tanks. They destroyed one the other disappeared into the jungle and was never found
I have a proposition, you know the show dogfights, I would like you to remake it but with more stuff like the battle of britain, d-day, the skies over poland, dogfights over the soviet union, etc, I really like the show.
That, and more post-WWII action (Indo-Pak conflicts, Iran-Iraq War, more Israel, Falklands, etc.)
In 1972, the NVA moved tanks against the city of An Loc and prepositioned T-54's just outside Saigon. I believe their hope was that after a success at An Loc they could quickly move their forces down the 60 miles to Saigon and take it. Because of the resistance of the South Vietnamese forces in the town PLUS the pounding of the encircling NVA troops by B-52's they were forced to withdraw back into Cambodia, along with their tanks poised outside Saigon.
Your wrong. There were attacks all over South Vietnam the attack at Saigon was ment to be a distraction for the real battles like Khe Sahn
@@jeambeam3173 The Battle at Khe Sahn was during the Tet Offensive of 1968 and was considered, by historians, to be a distraction for their attacks on other parts of Vietnam. The battle of An Loc was fought in 1972 and was a major front for the massive North Vietnamese invasion of the South that year.
@@badguy1481 xâm lược ???????????????????người USA đến xâm lược đất nước chúng tôi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!đó là sự thật
Great documentary
The PT-76 armor could be easily penetrated by the M72 LAW (Light Anti-Tank weapon) which uses a 66mm warhead, with a penetration of up to 300mm. It didn't work for Lt. Longgrear because the first PT-76 was too close and the warhead did not have sufficient momentum.
@TJ Murphy if you watch the video, the Green Berets successfully knocked out several PT-76s using the M72. So it worked.
I'm fairly certain it's because of bad technique. Looks like he grips the law wrong and therefor the rocket has the wrong angle. It's a good example of bad training, and why the US was defeated by the Vietnamese in the American war.
@@woutkoopman Sure, you know how to use a anti-tank rocket much better than a Special Force soldier? Where did you get your training from? XBox Series X ox or PlayStation 5? Maybe you can share your immense knowledge with the Green Berets. I'm sure they would appreciate it.
@@lancecahill5486 Dude you are mentioning insufficient momentum when talking about HEAT rounds! You are not credible to discuss with at all. In fact you either a bot or an US apologist.
@TJ Murphy The video only shows what happened in the first region of SVN. In " bloody summer " 1972 ,In the 2nd and 3rd regions of SVN, we destroyed many T 54 with M-72 , anti- tank rocket launchers .The city An Loc ,Binh Long province ,West side of Saigon city, could not stand without M- 72 when besieged by 3 NVN divisions + tanks + powerful artilleries. The 5th Infantry Division/SVN was in charge of the part and I served in that Division.
My Great Uncle drove an M113 in Vietnam. Rip Uncle Timmy!
Man you gotta admire the vietnamese they took on the japanese empire, the french, the US and none were able to break them. Those people were true warriors
You right .Vietnamese people are not afraid to die when they have to fight to protect their country.That's why after 1000 years of Chinese domination, the Vietnamese regained their independence with their own sacrifices!
GREAT! Finally somebody recognizing that the Americans are NOT that greatest in many things without other's help, like they say they're. Just remember the riot 01/06/21 (what a shame).
Vì chúng tôi yêu quê hương đất Nước của mình
Seems like from this scenario, we should see a tank enthusiasts' debate as to who had the "best armor", like we still see debated over the WW2 tanks.
Typically it goes that the side that lost actually had the superior weapons with "what if they had been used differently" stuff.
I actually served as 11-Hotel in the military, Early 80s. An M-60 tank is your best friend.
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My uncle was kia near pleiku central highlands South-Vietnam mid 3/1968 @ tail end of tet. He was with 1st cav. Not to mention several neighbors sons and freinds bros. that were there. They came back changed!
They did what their country asked them to do, and paid a personal price for it. But they did give South Vietnam almost 20 years if freedom from communism. For that, they should be appreciated.
@Uncle Ho South Vietnam had a free press and an opposition party. They had elections and even a couple of coup d'etat. People could stage demonstrations on the streets. None of which ever existed in the North and even today. The freedom that South Vietnamese had, as relative as it was, was far more than the North Vietnamese had under communist rules, which was none.
@Uncle Ho Catholic churches and Buddhist temples existed in every town and sometimes villages all over South Vietnam. Can you say that about North Vietnam? No, you can't. There were numerous independent newspapers that were published in South Vietnam that expressed a variety of views. Can you say that about North Vietnam? You can't, because information was (and still is) strictly controlled by the communist party. There were (and probably still is) only one newspaper and one radio network in North Vietnam that were part of the propaganda machine, controlled by the Politburo. By the way, my country, the United States of America, is not perfect, but at least, I can publicly criticized my government without repercussions, can you do the same with yours? Here in America, we can change president every 4 years, and a president can only serve a maximum of 2 terms (8 years). How long has the upper echelon of your government served? I looked up and found several examples. One was Le Duan, who served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1960 until his death in 1986. So it seems like your political leaders tend to serve for life. It also indicates that there has not been any free election in Vietnam, ever. So yes, our election system has some flaws, but it's still much better than yours.
@@lancecahill5486 what we who fought that war gave the ppl of VN was 3M grave stones with but one work on them Hero. Uncle HO after WW2 ask US to help make VN a free nation not a colony of France. Truman said no to him the French would be back as the over loads of the ppl of VN, Cam, Liao. A few yr later the French were thrown out by the ppl of VN.
Then those Vietnamese who had been christianized did not want the Buddhist to usurper the power they had gained under the French so that small minority dacite to divide nation. When I say small minority I mean about somewhere around 150,000 ppl.
U need to read a lot more of the history of VN so maybe u can understand that a vast majority of them want Ho to lead them after the French had been kicked out. This is why those who took over from French in SVN never allowed a free election. Ho did not take power in NVN the was elected to it unlike the christians running the south who just stayed running that half of the nation after French left.
@@richardpluim4426 You need to go back and see WHO staged the 9/11 attack and blame them.
Why is most of this videos content not allowed for UA-cam but it’s allowed for literal television?
The thing about urban tank warfare is you better have good grunt support because tank main guns can’t aim high or low, and open hatches mean dead loaders and commanders for snipers from higher level buildings…..this from a 7yr tanker.
Thank you all veterans..
The best lesson of the Vietnam war is when you go to war. Go in to win!
Or just, you know, not go to War in the first place.
Thank you Mike Bens, LBJ did not know how to win a war
@@argr Big or small we beat them all?
@@argr come and kick me off my horse, I was drafted into the Marine corp I kknow how to fight
@@argr every day
Brave and strong men
I GET VERY EMOTIONAL ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR.
MY DAD WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE ARMY INFANTRY.
HE WAS DEPLOYED TO DA NANG AND WE WERE SENT TO LIVE IN PUERTO WHERE MOST OF MY FAMILY WAS BORN JUST IN CASE MY DAD DID NOT SURVIVE HIS DEPLOYMENT.(1967-68).
HE SURVIVED AND WE WERE THEN DEPLOYED TO FT. AMADOR , CANAL ZONE , PANAMA.
I THANK GOD FOR AMERICA AND THE MEN AND WOMEN OF VALOR THAT SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN DEFENSE OF THE GREATEST CIVILIZATION IN HUMAN HISTORY ,
AND THE FAMILIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THAT SUFFERED THE TRAUMA OF IT ALL.
"FREEDOM IS NOT FREE"... (KOREAN WAR MEMORIAL IN D.C.) !!!
TO ALL MILITARY...
THANK YOU !!!
ELIJAH
MATTHEW 17:11
DIVINE INTERVENTION IS IMMINENT !!!
THE END OF SIN AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IS AT HAND !!!
Why are so many scenes blurred out?
I think you need to make an appointment to see an optometrist. I saw everything in this documentary, crystal clear.
@richardtibbetts574 Not what I'm stating. The scenes showing enemy kia for example some are blurred out
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One thing learned from war in the RVN was that units should be rotated and not individuals. Unit cohesion is paramount.
The beauty of the “Duster” tank was incredible. BUT the real tank war in SVN was written by Australians using Centurion tanks, they tore apart the VC and Regular bunker systems, immune to the RPGs, carrying the 30 cal and 50 cal secondary weapons, they were incredibly effective in Jungle, they never lost a tank and killed a lot of VC
god bless all marine and army grunts!!!!
Why are there only three guys in the pic? I thought the m48 had a four man crew.
The lost episode of "Greatest tank battles". This ep has never been shown on Military channel while all the other ones have been. The only place Americans can watch is here on YT
Well done Uncle Ho
I was going through the Army Induction Center in 1970.
I wanted be in a tank.
My brother in law was a "tunnel rat" for three tours in Vietnam.
Bravest guy I ever met.
My personal favorite weapon was the 106 mm Ontos.
During the Tet Offensive, the street to street offensive in Hue ,the Marines had these small lightly armored tracked goofy vehicles that mounted 6 106 mm recoiless rifles.
The NVA would fortify a large building ,and then the Marines found they could fire the.50 cal spotting rifle and when that tracer round was halfway
down the street the Ontos gunner would let loose the recoiless rifle round, one ,two or all six at once.
The building would be instant rubble.
The NVA and VC would quickly try to vacate the premises once they saw just the spotting round come through a window.
An amazingly destructive little piece of ordinance.
I would like choke the idiots who made this little weapon system, well just the guys who decided to put such thin armor on it.
I am now 70, a former defense contractor and armor developer in the Middle East , and worked on explosives suppression technology for an anti terrorist function.
But my total fascination with the recoiled rifles knows no bounds.
And the things you could speak on would have me fascinated for ever sir.
Thank you for your service! My Dad is 69 years old but just started college in 1969. One question, about the artillery piece you called recoiled, did u mean recoil less? Or did they have recoil?
Thank you for killing people in far away countries to make the world safe for democracy.
@@danielk4331 The ' recoilless rifle ' was basically a metal tube that acted as a rocket launcher . I was a 90 mm Recoilless Rifle gunner for a while in the U. S. Army's 7th Division , and was able to fire a few live rounds with the " 90 gun ". You had to check the area behind you when you fired that thing , because the backblast of the rocket leaving the tube was major . The gun would shudder a bit when you fired it , but no recoil at all . Just a horrific roar at both ends and another serious explosion on the target . A very effective weapon that the Army was forced to retire in favor of the TOW and the Dragon wire guided anti -- tank weapons .
They should have mounted the 106 RR on every vehicle the Army had . My friend Thomas Brooks , from Garland , Texas , was our top 106 gunner in the 3rd Brigade of the First Cav . The spotting round was great because you could sight right in with a couple of .50 caliber rounds , then let go with the main round . Scratch one tank .
If you decide to go to war you have to fully commit 110%.
If you're not willing to commit, you've lost the fight before it even started.
Colin Powell was fanatical on this point with Bush Snr ahead of Iraq I am sure you know. Totally fluffed the Gulf War by not committing to it properly - especially the follow up. My ex colleagues who served in Iraq in the 2000s told me nobody but nobody who was inside Iraq and anti Hussein trusted them. When I was in Afghan 2010/11 the US guys (Some both Gulf and Iraq vets) were always mentioning it. Afghan was different but the ‘don’t trust them’ is now the ‘image’ we have with whoever we try to work with. The end of Afghan just fireproofed their thinking in my opinion - subjective as it is I admit.
Started with the French in 52. The 10 thousand day war! I wasn’t born until 32 years later and I know that!
Started earlier than that. Few people know it, but the British were there before the French, just after WW2 and used Japanese troops to do most of the fighting - see ua-cam.com/video/1w-cv2CJbfI/v-deo.html
I’m very impressed with the Vietnamese fighting spirit. Today’s U.S. citizen should take note of their circumstance, study it and employ it into their everyday life.
We need braver politicians.
Served with the Marines CAG (CAP) units in Quang Tri 1969. Video well done, what caught my ear was the fact that they had to get permission to fire on that building. I remember that so well. We had to get permission as well, probably one of the dumbest rules of engagement I've ever been involved in. Welcome Home Brothers.
Probably didnt want a PR mess.
There were many more insane, restrictive and self-imposed rules of engagement such as ones that prohibited the USAF and USN from attacking SAM sites that were under construction, or that MiG airfields at Kep and Phuc Yen were kept off limit, or that US pilots were not allowed to fire back at the SAM and AAvA sites at the Gia Lam International Airfield even when fired upon, because the airfield was supposed to be a civilian one, despite the fact it was heavily protect by an air defense system. The ROEs were written by civilians at the Pentagon whose guidance was based on political motive instead of military doctrine. The North Vietnamese took full advantage of the ROEs and worse, they were emboldened by the notion that the civilians in the White House and the DoD were not serious about winning the war.
Unreal. My dad was in Saigon and Loas. He made it out, passed away at 83
Vietnam war : one of the greatest military defeat of all time.
Because Vietnam have no fronts unlike in WW2 and Korea War they are fronts US Military Conventional.way. US Military dont really analyze well that Vietnam can fight for independence and unify into one Vietnam for 10, 20 and 30 yrs or even more that the US Military cant
Thanks to politicians and the hippies.
Hehe.
Ann failed to mention Biden’s debacle in Afghanistan and the humiliating retreat and billions of dollars in armament left to the Taliban. FJB
San Jacinto was much quicker done and far more deciesive
nice video about tanks attacks between US army as mixed several types units ( M-60 Patton tanks) also Northern Vietnam army (infantry + tanks units ) or Vet-COHNG Infantry with tanks ,Might be Southern Vietnam army had M-48 tank ) which was less quality than M-60 Patton tanks for that South Vietnam armies defeated in fast upgrades until Large & Famous disasters faced civilian peoples in Southern Vietnam cities & SAYGOON capital (TWO millions Executed & TWO Millions Rans away to width Pacific Ocean with maximum horrible & terrifying situations (Huge Numbers of Victims of USA cold war game in Vietnam )
The U. S. military was fighting the Vietnam war with one hand tied. How could it win? Not knowing a nation's history would result in a military failure for conquering powers.
Brilliant Documentary
Could you possibly post the show Shootout from History Channel?
I want to see from Vietnamese perspective
Loved the Marine tanks..>>Our tanks worked with them sometimes!...A Trp, 1/1 Cav, 68-69
Not marine tanks... it's usa tanks... ALL... Fight
.. Die......
Humiliating escape from Vietnam in 30/4/75 said it all. The foolish, ridiculous excuses only made the defeat more bitter.
8:22..." tank crewmen " You don't get to exit the Tank inside the Combat Zone.
Remember crossing bridges with tanks dug in. Decades later it struck me as an incredibly asinine thing to do to soldiers.
Special forces...NO..... EVERY man is special...we all have heart ache... problems... family... AND WE ALL BLEED....
Yeah I don’t think every soldier can go miles behind enemy lines and kill 100 dudes
22:35 this guy so cool knows to talk so well
I don't believe that the south Vietnamese people were not as committed to victory like the north.
I believe that the war was the first to be truly condemned by both American
leadership and American people; our troops were abandoned by both.
Still, I think what made the greatest difference was unconventional warfare, giving considerable advantage to the north.
Because Ho Chin Minh trail is a rugged mountanous of thick jungle vegetation and the North have the advantage and upperhand they know these rugged mountainous thick jungke vegetation since after the defeat French involvement in Vietnam 195
Uncle Ho Chi Minh said If i lost 10 Men and if they lost one man still won these war .
When one Democratic Peoples of Vietnam or DPV thats North Vietnam said America sees Two Vietbam that is North abd South Vietnam while People in the North sees One Vietnam
The south eventually relised that the USA was NOT there the help them, But rule them. They saw with their own eyes civilians from the south get abused by US soldiers. It was in reports and pictures throughout the south at the time. thats why most south vietnames hated the americans as much as the north. Reports of murders, massacres and rapes of south civilians were common.
Is it just me or is most of the video blurred out for youtube censorship.
Does my head in with it trying to watch it in the uk 🇬🇧
The Tet Offensive was a major military defeat for the NVA, as it failed to take over South Vietnam while suffering heavy casulaties, as well as the destruction of their undercover operation in South Vietnam, a fact that was acknowledged by the NVA's commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap. But it was a political triumph for North Vietnam, thanks to, ironically, the American press.
The Military had been Lying for years about “Victory being right around the corner” but sure blame the Press 🐑🐑🐑
@@larrygrecko921 That is true that General Westmoreland gave over optimistic and non -- factual reports about the progress of the war , but the US press was negligent in not reporting the true defeat of the NVA and Vietcong after Tet was over . They lost thousands killed and there was no public uprising as they thought there would be .
do a documentary about the war here in the philippines specially th take over of marawi city. thank you