This 35mm slide captures a Saigon street during the Tet Offensive of January-February 1968, one of the pivotal campaigns of the Vietnam War. A U.S. military jeep and soldiers are seen near a hastily erected barbed-wire barricade, a common sight as American and South Vietnamese forces fought to clear the capital of infiltrating Communist forces. The surrounding French colonial architecture, shuttered shopfronts, and civilian scooters illustrate the jarring juxtaposition of urban daily life with sudden military occupation that defined the offensive's impact on South Vietnam's cities. Project: 218415