Tet Offensive attacks on Bien Hoa and Long Binh

The VC 275th Regiment had taken up positions in a residential area known at the Widows' Village ({{Coord|10.9587|N|106.877|E|display=inline}}), which housed the wives and families of dead ARVN soldiers and was located across Route 316 from the Plantation Compound. A VC commander captured later in the battle revealed that his orders were only to start the attack after several hundred rockets had hit the Plantation, but as the rocket sites had been neutralized before the rocket threshold was reached, the ground assault on the Plantation never began.{{rp|210}} Instead at approximately 03:30 the VC began firing across the road at the Plantation Compound being met by return fire from the perimeter bunkers. Some VC crossed Route 316 and took up firing positions in bush at the southern perimeter of the Plantation.{{rp|201–5}}

The VC 275th Regiment had taken up positions in a residential area known at the Widows' Village ({{Coord|10.9587|N|106.877|E|display=inline}}), which housed the wives and families of dead ARVN soldiers and was located across Route 316 from the Plantation Compound. A VC commander captured later in the battle revealed that his orders were only to start the attack after several hundred rockets had hit the Plantation, but as the rocket sites had been neutralized before the rocket threshold was reached, the ground assault on the Plantation never began.{{rp|210}} Instead at approximately 03:30 the VC began firing across the road at the Plantation Compound being met by return fire from the perimeter bunkers. Some VC crossed Route 316 and took up firing positions in bush at the southern perimeter of the Plantation.{{rp|201–5}}

At 04:00 a 60-man VC sapper team penetrated the northeastern perimeter of the base killing three MPs and entered the massive ammunition dump ({{Coord|10.946|N|106.91|E|display=inline}}) where they planted eighteen [[Satchel charge]]s before being forced to withdraw by the 720th Military Police Battalion. Bomb squads disarmed seven of the charges, but at 07:30 the remainder exploded with three igniting pallets of artillery shells and their [[Propellant]] bags causing a massive explosion, blast wave and mushroom cloud. However the ammunition storage bunkers prevented a chain reaction and the lost munitions were easily replaced with no impact on supply.{{rp|352}}{{rp|206–7}}

At 04:00 a 60-man VC sapper team penetrated the northeastern perimeter of the base killing three MPs and entered the massive ammunition dump ({{Coord|10.946|N|106.91|E|display=inline}}) where they planted eighteen [[Satchel charge]]s before being forced to withdraw by the 720th Military Police Battalion. Bomb squads disarmed seven of the charges, but at 04:30 the remainder exploded with three igniting pallets of artillery shells and their [[Propellant]] bags causing a massive explosion, blast wave and mushroom cloud. However the ammunition storage bunkers prevented a chain reaction and the lost munitions were easily replaced with no impact on supply.{{rp|352}}{{rp|206–7}}

At approximately 05:30, the [[47th Infantry Regiment (United States)|2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment]], mounted on [[M113 armored personnel carrier|M113 Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicles]] (ACAVs) coming from Bearcat approached the Plantation from the southwest and formed a skirmish line to engage the VC, while helicopter gunships from the [[17th Cavalry Regiment#Vietnam|3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment]] swept in to rocket and machine gun the VC positions. At 08:00 the VC south of the Plantation withdrew into the Widows’ Village. Company B, [[39th Infantry Regiment (United States)#Vietnam|2nd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment]] had arrived by helicopter from Bearcat and joined up with 2/47th Infantry to sweep the Widows’ Village. By late afternoon the 275th Regiment retreated north, leaving over 200 dead.{{rp|351–2}} US losses in the fighting in the Widow's Village were three dead.{{rp|218}}

At approximately 05:30, the [[47th Infantry Regiment (United States)|2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment]], mounted on [[M113 armored personnel carrier|M113 Armored Cavalry Assault Vehicles]] (ACAVs) coming from Bearcat approached the Plantation from the southwest and formed a skirmish line to engage the VC, while helicopter gunships from the [[17th Cavalry Regiment#Vietnam|3rd Squadron, 17th Cavalry Regiment]] swept in to rocket and machine gun the VC positions. At 08:00 the VC south of the Plantation withdrew into the Widows’ Village. Company B, [[39th Infantry Regiment (United States)#Vietnam|2nd Battalion, 39th Infantry Regiment]] had arrived by helicopter from Bearcat and joined up with 2/47th Infantry to sweep the Widows’ Village. By late afternoon the 275th Regiment retreated north, leaving over 200 dead.{{rp|351–2}} US losses in the fighting in the Widow's Village were three dead.{{rp|218}}