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==Bibliography== {{Refbegin|30em}} * {{Cite book|author=Hammond, William H. |title=The United States Army in Vietnam, Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1962β1968 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=[[United States Army Center of Military History]] |year=1988}} * {{Cite book|author=Hoang Ngoc Lung |title=The General Offensives of 1968β69 |location=McLean VA |publisher=General Research Corporation |year=1978}} * {{Cite book|author=Military History Institute of Vietnam |title=Victory in Vietnam: A History of the People's Army of Vietnam, 1954β1975 |others=trans. 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