It was part of the Tet Offensive.
Are you talking about a North Vietnamese or South Vietnamese EMBASSY? There would have been no such thing as a Vietnamese Embassy during the Vietnam War. There was no country called Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
The last U.S. forces left South Vietnam in 1973. The US Embassy was evacuated and the last advisers pulled out in April 1975.
SOUTH Vietnam was called the "REPUBLIC of South Vietnam." Everyone in those days just called North Vietnam...NORTH VIETNAM.
No south korea made it
There is no country called South Vietnam anymore.
The event was the TET Offensive of 1968. The plan was for communist forces to attack every province in South Vietnam simultaneously on January 30 of that year - during the Chinese New Year celebration called Tet. The idea was to encourage the South Vietnam people to make an uprising against the government to help the North reunify Vietnam. The result was far different. A small squad did make it inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Saigon, but were then all killed. Other attacks met with the same overwhelming response. The exception was Ho Chi Minh's childhood city of Hue. The university town with a population over 100,000 at the time was held by North Vietnam forces for about three weeks before U.S. Marine and Army troops fought door to door to remove the occupying force.
There was no country called "Vietnam" during the war. There was a country called North Vietnam and another country called South Vietnam, which one are you asking about?
GI's called em Nationals in country, or Viet civilians; GI's called the South Vietnamese soldier, ARVN's (jokingly, ARVN the Marvin) (Army Republic of South Vietnam).
North Vietnam defeated South Vietnam on 30 April 1975 with a conventional tank & infantry attack.
They wanted it under Communist North Vietnamese control; a united Vietnam...what it is today. They won the war, remember?
The TET Offensive of 1968
They wanted it under Communist North Vietnamese control; a united Vietnam...what it is today. They won the war, remember?