I had the opportunity to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, which are just outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The tunnel network was started in the late 1940s and used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.
To the Viet Cong, a shovel is as important as a rifle. Steadily increasing pressure from American ground and air power has literally pushed the Reds underground, and in the past few years they have ...
Robert Haldane, 83, an Army officer who led the battalion that discovered the infamous Cu Chi tunnels during the Vietnam War, died of cancer March 5 at his home in Alexandria. Lt. Gen. Haldane was a ...
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The most dangerous job of the Vietnam War
In the jungles of Vietnam, the war was not only fought on the surface but deep underground, where vast tunnel networks allowed the Viet Cong to survive overwhelming firepower. We explore how these ...
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Viet-wrong! Tourist struggles to escape from Cu Chi Tunnels that helped defeat the Americans
This tourist would never make a Viet Cong guerrilla - he struggled to escape from their secret tunnels. Ryan Joshua Molata squeezed into the narrow entrance of the Cu Chi Tunnels in Vietnam but soon ...
Nothing so underscores the elusiveness of the enemy in South Viet Nam as the frequent battle communique: “Initial contact was light.” In order to engage the Viet Cong, Americans and South Vietnamese ...
At the start of 1967, some 280,000 Viet Cong opposed 385,000 Americans, and in the previous year more than ten times as many Viet Cong had died. Almost always outgunned and without effective air or ...
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