How Effective Were American Tanks In The Vietnam War? | Greatest Tank Battles | War Stories 

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I don’t know who’s in charge of picking vets to be on this show but each and every one of them, throughout the whole series, seems like an absolute pleasure to be around.

My husband, Dennis Higginbotham was a loader on an M48. He was with the Dreadnought 2nd infantry 34th armor division. (I think I said that right) His tank was hit with an rpg during TET and blew the tank commander completely out and Dennis was blown most of the way out only hanging on with his heels until he could pull himself back inside. It blew his ears out and showered him with shrapnel. He didnt care to talk about it that much so I respected that. He passed June 30th a year ago from heart failure due to damage from agent orange. He was and is my hero. I have his purple heart and cherish it and the sacrifice that he and his brothers in arms gave to that war that was none of our damned biz. I miss him so much....

Stop censoring images!

I was born in central highland on the tet offensive I'm a montagnard from the Jeh tribes my dad fought with the beret but was kill in Dak Pek in the beret fort on the tet.Went back home in 1995.Beautiful but can still see the trees that was hit by agent orange. Maybe the tree have ben cut down or the leaves gotten green.I also seen u.s tanks going through Kontum .Anyway thankyou all who was there to help the montagnards.If you go back that smell I can still remember that I cant explained I'm adopted so this is my name.My Jeh name is Thieu.Semper Fi from a desert storm vet.God blessed

My grandpa was a Major in the ARVN. He didn’t talk about his service, but I believe he fought in at least 1 of the major battles. After my grandpa moved to SF in 1984, he lived there with my family until December 30, 2020 where he passed away. When I grow up, I want to be a fighter pilot in the Navy or Air Force to continue the military legacy.

I’m 75 years old now and was a very small active military cog in that awful conflict when I was a young man. But to this day the question continues to plague me, what the war was fought for, and I don’t think anyone else does either. I’m sure if you’re a born and raised Vietnamese communist you’d say you’re quite sure you know the answer to the question; But would that really be the truth? Why did millions die in Vietnam. My days there decades ago still haunt me and the question of why so many lives had to be damaged or snuffed out still stays in my mind.

I absolutely love that "Whooaaaaaa! That's a russian tank man! That's a PT76"

My relative is on the Traveling Vietnam War Memorial. He represent Hawai'i. He died in this offensive. Thank you brave man & woman. Thank you for your service! TANKERS LEAD THE WAY 👊😎

My dad was on a tank crew during his service in Vietnam for one of his tours. He only ever told me 1 story about it.

My dad was one of these guys coming off that boat he used to tell me stories about his experiences in 'nam'

i was on a m60 52 ton tank in kun toom provence pleiku, never had a chance to enguage a T62 enemy tank , plenty of NVA around lz black hawk, LZ oasis, we destroyed vc base camps near dak tko. 4th inf div. B co. 10 ACR.

You should do a story on Australian Centurians in Vietnam.

It's strange how time seems to ultimately make every epoch of history pale into insignificance. The Vietnam War once consumed the nightly news, turning strange and obscure place names like Hue, Da Nang, and Hanoi into household language, coloured by the most graphic images of destruction and suffering. Still the slaughter continues in an alternate theatre, only the place names have changed...

Imagine what Stalingrad must have been like....

there was a great documentary about the vietnam war on the french television channel "arte", there were people interviewed from both side, nva, arvn, vietcong, us military, politicians and so on

The best lesson of the Vietnam war is when you go to war. Go in to win!

Longgear recalling fighting the PT-76s was having the time of his life lmao. what a badass, would definitely want him on my side.

Jesus, LT Longreer comes across as a REALLY gutsy guy. Mind you, he WAS special forces.

I pent tribute to all GIs who went to VIETNAM and to those who died and disappeared of this war I 'm french

I was with 1st Tanks,1st Marines 73-77. Our Tanks were M-48's just back from Nam. They were really battle scarred.

Special forces...NO..... EVERY man is special...we all have heart ache... problems... family... AND WE ALL BLEED....

Is it just me or is most of the video blurred out for youtube censorship.

Exception: September 1968, A -1st 15th Arty 155 SP DakTo, special forces firebase. Replacing previous Arty Battery taken out by NVA rockets. Broad daylight, two tanks appear from the jungle in front of us 1500 yards on the road up to the fire base. The gates to the fire base open and our tanks go through firing at what we finally realized where not our tanks. They destroyed one the other disappeared into the jungle and was never found

In 1972, the NVA moved tanks against the city of An Loc and prepositioned T-54's just outside Saigon. I believe their hope was that after a success at An Loc they could quickly move their forces down the 60 miles to Saigon and take it. Because of the resistance of the South Vietnamese forces in the town PLUS the pounding of the encircling NVA troops by B-52's they were forced to withdraw back into Cambodia, along with their tanks poised outside Saigon.

Humiliating escape from Vietnam in 30/4/75 said it all. The foolish, ridiculous excuses only made the defeat more bitter.

Vietnam war : one of the greatest military defeat of all time.

I must say that the special force Lt longgear in 21:09 sees his life in combat just like we play call of duty. amazing breed of soldier he is, never cross in his mind to tuck tail and run or even to surrender.

The thing about urban tank warfare is you better have good grunt support because tank main guns can’t aim high or low, and open hatches mean dead loaders and commanders for snipers from higher level buildings…..this from a 7yr tanker.

Westmoreland,,, The delushional John Wayne imitator.. The real John Wayne... Was honest,, Relaxed.. & Treated every as an Equal!

30:11 A classis Americanism, "They can't hold ground, but they can try and stop people from taking it", lol.

Great documentary

The lost episode of "Greatest tank battles". This ep has never been shown on Military channel while all the other ones have been. The only place Americans can watch is here on YT

Why do you blur the casualties? it's history

America's interest was not containing the USSR, rather creating ap market for the military industrial complex. Just like today

The beauty of the “Duster” tank was incredible. BUT the real tank war in SVN was written by Australians using Centurion tanks, they tore apart the VC and Regular bunker systems, immune to the RPGs, carrying the 30 cal and 50 cal secondary weapons, they were incredibly effective in Jungle, they never lost a tank and killed a lot of VC

god bless all marine and army grunts!!!!

20:39 "Yes! a Hit!"

This channel had best war documentaries on RU-vid 👌

nice video about tanks attacks between US army as mixed several types units ( M-60 Patton tanks) also Northern Vietnam army (infantry + tanks units ) or Vet-COHNG Infantry with tanks ,Might be Southern Vietnam army had M-48 tank ) which was less quality than M-60 Patton tanks for that South Vietnam armies defeated in fast upgrades until Large & Famous disasters faced civilian peoples in Southern Vietnam cities & SAYGOON capital (TWO millions Executed & TWO Millions Rans away to width Pacific Ocean with maximum horrible & terrifying situations (Huge Numbers of Victims of USA cold war game in Vietnam )

Great documentary but kind of just proves the point that they weren’t as heavily used compared to prior wars

The special forces guy is great. Imagine firing 3 LAWs and having NOTHING come out.

23:23 Never gets old XDD

Why are so many scenes blurred out?

I’m very impressed with the Vietnamese fighting spirit. Today’s U.S. citizen should take note of their circumstance, study it and employ it into their everyday life.

Army Organization Squad, section, or vehicle Platoon 2-5 squads, sections or vehicles Company, troop(cvalry), battery (artillery and Air Defense) consists of 2-5 platoons. Battalion or squadron (cavalry) 2-5 companies, troops or batteries. Brigade or regiment 2-5 battalions. Division 2-5 usually 3 brigades or regiments. All of these units usually have some sub units. The 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment was a huge non standard armoured catchall. Ever since the end of WW2 US army units were permanently equipped with the types of "specialized sub units that they routinely borrowed". This meant that every infantry division had it's own tank battalion. It wasn't uncommon for an infantry battalion to have an armored cavalry squadron (light tank battalion) and one of it's infantry battalions to be mechanized (riding armoured troop carriers)

You can win against an army, but you can never win against an entire people. I love Vietnam 🇻🇳🇻🇳

Thee Australians used the tank at 3 Fire bases and did a lot of damage on the enemy to ,Centrution tank too .Coral.Balmoral and Manly bases .

I like the man at 12:32. My very thoughts exactly.

The third dude is the happiest person from the Vietnam war.

Unfortunately, I never see any references to the Australian 1st Armoured Regiment in Vietnam - Centurion tanks at the Battle of Bing Ba

How many times do we have to hear...never again ?!

Those brave guys sure let 'em have it nice n' good.

my dads friend had his face torn off in a tank in vietnam. really nice man.

In most where people are fighting for just course no amount of firepower one can throw, what matters in the determination and will power to sacrifice their precious lives for freedom,yes opponent can win many battles, but he may not win the war.Yes leaders can be communists but ordinary fighters who were only motivated to see their motherland freed from the illegal occupiers whom many of their soldiers were also innocent young men who got nothing to do with what politicians brainwashing them with.This was thesame situation we were in over here ,he had died in numbers and finally we won our land back.

My favorite tanks are from this area. I still think they would be affective today. Given what ive seen from other countries.

I did 2 yrs in anglico..usmc wasn't much fun as you describe

What is heroic to bomb country that do not have a single metal factory?

Brilliant Documentary

I don't believe that the south Vietnamese people were not as committed to victory like the north. I believe that the war was the first to be truly condemned by both American leadership and American people; our troops were abandoned by both. Still, I think what made the greatest difference was unconventional warfare, giving considerable advantage to the north.

What is it with Timeline that every Vietnam episode has to have tanks and the statement that “it’s a misconception that tanks weren’t used in Vietnam”

The Tet Offensive was a major military defeat for the NVA, as it failed to take over South Vietnam while suffering heavy casulaties, as well as the destruction of their undercover operation in South Vietnam, a fact that was acknowledged by the NVA's commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap. But it was a political triumph for North Vietnam, thanks to, ironically, the American press.

When I think about Vietnam War. For some reason tank's never come to my mental picture.

As tough as the M48 crew had, imagine being in a lightly armored Ontos. Brrrrrrrrr.

When the United States wants to disparage a group of people they come up with a label for them. In this video the term communist is used over and over again to describe Vietnamese fighters. But in all of the literature in America about the Vietnam War almost none of it relates why Vietnamese Fighters were fighting in the first place. Vietnamese Fighters were fighting for one simple reason and that was to drive Imperial powers like the United States off of the land of their ancestors which included South Vietnam. Chinese leader Zhoa En Li divided Vietnam at the 17th parallel as a compromise but that was not something that the Vietnamese accepted. And in spite of what the American government tried to define and enforce upon them all of Vietnam belonged to the Vietnamese people. Now forty-six years after the Vietnam War ended has the world fallen apart has all of Southeast Asia come under the rule of communism? And what does this have to say about the American propaganda machine coming from the government and the media and the 58,000 Americans who died in Vietnam?

Rule number one.. s don’t worry what hippies thing when your in full combat. Don’t let media tag along everywhere you go. Big mistake the generals made letting that happen.

i went back to dmz 2000-03 4 trips then 2008 40th tet aniversary

Is fun to see that guy talks about lang vei

I’m 48 and I’ve never given much thought to tanks being used on Vietnam. Having liver in the Philippines, once, I was always of the mind set that a tank would be the LAST thing you want in a jungle. But, I simply forgot about urban warfare.

Light 🕯️

15:39 - Fun Fact: "Lang Vei" is Norwegian for "Long Road"

Error, we did not withdraw all troops in 72, Nam fell in 75.

The Domino FELL

Impressive victory.

11:56 It's not a RPG. It's a... Panzerfaust 250?! or.. RPG-2

This war seemed pointless alot of American and Vietnamese soldiers butchered surviving veterans are living with trauma and disability

👽What's in L.B.J.'s hand behind his back? An XP-100 in .221 Fireball maybe !!?

13:38 anyone else notice the dust cover that came off? lol

We want to hear the nva side of the story where are the mva tank comanders

RPGs is what devastated the us in Iraq.

Any body remember It just a memory now .

Don't no what Tu say but them poor guys 🙏😞

That made Americans realize that this was not a war but police action. We beat the enemy in a village or province then we leave and enemy returns to take over again. We knew fighting a war like this was unwinnable .

Unfortunately I was born and grew up in Hue. In 1968 when I was 5, I witnessed numerous terrible bloody tragedies. In this battle I don't care which side won. I desperatedly found that thousands of civilians including women and children lost lives. I personally caught sight of their corpses in the streets. Who will be responsible for this inhuman action? Just conflicting ideology? NO WAY ! NO SOPHISM !

I like how they don't mention all the oil that standard oil was going to loose to the vietnamese as the major reason for their police action

thank you for sharing 🙏

I just feel like if there's someone shooting at you from the street and you're in a tank in a house in front of you drive through the house

just like the 2nd world war when they had to clean a Sherman tank out, and then go to war.

Yeah....I guess if I wanted to divert attention away from nam I'd also keep the apollo hoaxes going.

Unfortunately the only hero's of that war we're Vietnamese, cause we had no buisness there

Maybe USA lose in Vietnam but they win and influence Indonesia and Filipina so greatly

This battle effectively ended the Viet Kong as 70% of it was completely destroyed by the offensive, but the propaganda value and the fact that the US Embassy in Saigon was attacked proved to be a decisive propaganda, political and strategic victory for North Vietnam.

It was not really "North Vietnamese Armor". It was in reality "Soviet armor."

Sad,but Americans should never have been there

So we should have given up in W.W.II after the Battle of the Bulge.

Despite of having a far more superior advantage in terms of number of troops, artillery pieces, and tanks, the NVA failed to take over the Khe Sanh base, thanks to the fierce resistance by the USMC and South Vietnamese Marines who defended the base, as well as the tremendous efforts by the USAF, especially by the B-52 bombers flown from air base in Thailand.

Was the US' involvement in Vietnam worth it? One can answer that question by looking at the fact that millions of Vietnamese have fled the country and the oppressive communist regime to become refugees all over the world since the day the NBA tanks rolled into Saigon on 30 April, 1975.

How many NVA and VC died in Tet?

Any country that sends soldiers into combat and you have to ask to defend yourself that country deserves no respect

This was also a ploy to engage vc knowing they would b almost annilated therefore leaving only nva in country so when the takeover came they would already have a (so to speak) foot in the door