Vietnam history

Tet Offensive, attacks staged by North Vietnamese forces beginning in the early hours of January 31, 1968, during the Vietnam War. The attacks were carried out by some 85,000 troops against five major South Vietnamese cities, dozens of military installations, and scores of towns and villages throughout South Vietnam.

TIME asked those who lived the war to select an image from the period that they found particularly significant. Here are their choices

Prostitution during the Vietnam War in photographs of the 1960s and 1970s

14 Jun 1968, Khe Sanh, South Vietnam --- A helicopter arrives at a hill near Khe Sanh to pick up those soldiers killed and wounded when a US fighter plane accidentally fired upon a US position during the Vietnam War. --- Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

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Here's a Vietnam War map showing men and weapons in South Vietnam at the start of 1968 -- US / Allied / South Viet / VC-NVA

catalog.archives.gov/id/17331456 Color Photographs of Signal Corps Activity, 1944 - 1981 Photograph of the Mobile Riverine Force 9/26/1967

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Ho Chi Minh , founder of Indochinese communist party, then from1945 president of democratic republic of Vietnam here c. 1965 in garden of presidential palace in Hanoi

Helicopters bring in supplies, ammunition, weapons and mail to firebase Bunker Hill in Vietnam, March 20, 1969. (AP Photo/Henri Huet) www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-I-VNM-APHS16348...