Vietnam: The US Embassy, Saigon, with RPG-2 damage to chancery wall in several places - Tet Offensive, 31 January 1968. Shortly after midnight on 31 January 1968, 19 Vietcong sappers from the elite C-10 Sapper Battalion gathered at a Vietcong safe house in a car repair shop at 59 Phan Thanh Gian Street to distribute weapons and conduct final preparations for the attack. At 02:47 hours, the Vietcong blew a small hole in the perimeter wall on Thong Nhut Boulevard and gained access to the embassy compound. The Vietcong opened fire on the Chancery building with Type 56s and RPG-2s.

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