Following the Tet Offensive of January 1968, the Vietnam War entered a turbulent new chapter as violence and instability spread across South Vietnam. In the early months of 1968, ITN’s Alan Hart and cameramen Peter Brown and Chris Faulds documented American and South Vietnamese efforts to push back Viet Cong forces across the country. Hart’s reports captured some of the fiercest fighting of early 1968, along with the human cost the war imposed on South Vietnam’s civilian population. They are presented here in full.
00:00 Introduction
01:34 Hart report from Saigon (28 February 1968)
02:49 Fighting around Tan Son Nhut Air Base (1 March 1968)
07:11 US action in Quang Tri Province (11 March 1968)
11:00 Report on ARVN recruits at Quang Trung Training Centre (22 March 1968)
13:53 Battle of Duc Hoa (25 March 1968)
18:01 Refugee family in Saigon (12 April 1968)
20:33 US forces recapture Lang Vei Special Forces Camp (16 April 1968)
