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Why Vietnam War TUNNEL RAT Job Was so DEADLY

During the Vietnam war, Americans had to adapt to the Viet Cong's guerilla and trench warfare styles, and thus the Tunnel ...
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.
Visitors have to crawl on their hands and knees if they want to see firsthand one of the best-kept secrets of the Vietnam War. The eerie attraction is an elaborate maze of tunnels stretching over a ...
A massive tunnel system running from Gaza to the Egyptian border has long served Palestinians as a supply line for everything from livestock and construction materials to stocks of medicine and ...
It was a war pitting shovels against computers. The shovels won. Crawling through the clammy, claustrophobic bowels of Cu Chi District, you come face to face with the reality of how one of the poorest ...
JUST over 50 years ago the first American troops arrived in Vietnam to fight a savage war which still haunts the nation today. Many thought they would be back home in the States within a few weeks ...
Robert Haldane, 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, Va. He was 83. Lt. Gen.
CU CHI, Vietnam -- When U.S. troops first deployed in large numbers to Vietnam in the mid-1960s, one of the first steps of the Army's 25th Division was to build a large base in the Cu Chi District.
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 ...
In the pitch darkness of the narrow tunnel, the smell of packed mud assailed the nostrils. Countless people must have traversed them, without fear or dread. But for me, panic was just a step away. I ...
The massive subterranean complexes extend thousands of miles underneath the nation's former battlefields JUST over 50 years ago the first American troops arrived in Vietnam to fight a savage war which ...