| 1969 Tet Offensive | |||||||
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| Part of Vietnam War | |||||||
 1st Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment M551 near Long Binh, 23 February 1969 | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States South Vietnam |
 Viet Cong North Vietnam | ||||||
Tet 1969 refers to the attacks mounted by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) in February 1969 in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, one year after the original Tet Offensive.
Most attacks centered on military targets near Saigon and Da Nang and were quickly beaten off. Some speculate that the attacks were mounted to test the will of the new U.S. President Richard Nixon who retaliated by secretly bombing PAVN/VC sanctuaries in Cambodia the following month.
Numerous bases were attacked, these attacks were all beaten back but did inflict casualties and reinforced the fact that PAVN/VC forces were able to mount attacks at will.