00:00 -

00:01 - January 31st, 1968 I was sitting

00:05 - on the way city ramp when the

00:08 - Viet Cong started the throwing

00:09 - b-40 rockets in on the ramp.

00:13 - And that was the start of the

00:14 - Tet Offensive.

00:17 - Tet was like the Battle of the

00:20 - Bulge

00:20 - If you're familiar with that in

00:22 - World War II, the Tet Offensive

00:25 - of '68 was like that for us.

00:29 - They started thowing the b-40s.

00:31 - I had to get the boat off the

00:33 - beach and out in the small

00:35 - harbor.

00:37 - And we sat there all night long

00:39 - waiting to get underway in the

00:41 - morning to transit back down the

00:43 - river and back out to sea side.

00:46 - During that period of time was

00:48 - about six hours of complete

00:50 - darkness except for the rockets

00:52 - being thrown in on the ramp and

00:55 - we could see them really doing

00:57 - some devastation in the city

01:01 - away.

01:03 - But there wasn't anything we

01:04 - could do we had to get out of

01:06 - there first thing in the

01:07 - morning.