The streets of Saigon were bathed in an eerie silence on this fateful morning, but little did the Americans know that the Viet Cong was plotting a daring assault on the US embassy. Without warning, Viet Cong guerrillas emerged from the shadows, launching a series of coordinated attacks on the embassy and other key targets. The Tet Offensive, as it came to be known, caught the Americans off guard, exposing the chinks in their armor and sending shockwaves around the world. As the fighting raged on, the US military scrambled to respond, but the Viet Cong's cunning plan had already achieved its objective: to show that the war was far from won.