Viet Cong tunnels are shored with bamboo, take right-angle turns roughly every ten yards to baffle the blast of satchel charges dropped in the mouths of the tunnels. The Viet Cong use rabbits or ...

The Cu Chi Tunnels of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, are now a hot tourist destination. Built by the communist Viet Cong in the 1940s, these tunnels were used for a variety of reasons. They housed ...

The Viet Cong dug elaborate tunnel complexes to use as safe bases, conducted hit-and-run attacks on Americans, and tried to avoid large-scale battles. The GIs usually moved slowly, calling in ...

smaller U.S. soldiers were assigned duty as Tunnel Rats. Some 700 American boys dared to crawl into a Viet Cong tunnel, armed with pistol and flashlight. One Tunnel Rat, Nelson Ritter, described a ...

B-52s have begun making tandem runs over Viet Cong tunnel areas, first with deep-penetration bombs that bore into the earth, then with a second wave of conventional bombs that destroy the surfaced ...

The Vietnamese Communists ... The answer was to build enormous systems of underground tunnels. The orders coming from NLF headquarters were absolutely clear. Tunnels were not to be treated ...

C.W. Bowman was a “tunnel rat” sent as point man into the Viet Cong’s network of tunnels. When his best friend, Gary Heeter, gets his legs blown up, Bowman says that he felt “nothing ...

Allison breaks down battle tactics used by the United States military; Viet Cong, or VC ... and the use of tunnels and firepower in "We Were Soldiers" (2002), starring Mel Gibson.