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Underground War in Vietnam (9 photos)
Deep in the black-black hole sits a black-black (dust) "Charlie" and waits for its prey!
Approximately legend went to the US troops when they were in Vietnam ...
In 1965, the 25th Infantry Division of the United States was placed near the village of Cu Chi by Saigon. There are the main focus of guerrilla resistance in South Vietnam, the main base of the communist North. US planned to quickly crush the resistance, thereby gain ultimate control over the southern part of Vietnam and the communists demonstrate gruel.
But almost immediately in the American camp began to happen strange, mystical thing. Despite the strengthened protection perimeter at night in tents shots were fired, and the next morning they found the murdered officers. In the bushes right in the center of the camp flashed surreal shadows, which made the very real shots and disappear to nowhere.
The Americans stepped up to the limit of protection and began a massive operation to clean up neighborhoods. Thousands of soldiers and bulldozers demolished jungle "cleaned the" area napalm, destroying all the settlements, as well as sources of food and water.
Ghosts continued to attack.
It took four months to solve the mystery: by coincidence Base 25th Division is located just above the underground guerrilla city! It was a network of tunnels with a total length of over 250 kilometers, which is dug in clay, perfect for this earth Cu Chi in the early XX century, during the French occupation.
However, Americans long rejoiced his discovery. Yes, they found a "hole" (more precisely, at the time the American command only guess at the beginning of their existence, not even close to representing the scale tunnel system), but how to deal with them?
To go down inside? For this purpose, we brought specially trained unit "tunnel rats" - puny crazy soldiers, equipped with headlamps, wire phones Gun with Laser Sight ...
Approximately legend went to the US troops when they were in Vietnam ...
In 1965, the 25th Infantry Division of the United States was placed near the village of Cu Chi by Saigon. There are the main focus of guerrilla resistance in South Vietnam, the main base of the communist North. US planned to quickly crush the resistance, thereby gain ultimate control over the southern part of Vietnam and the communists demonstrate gruel.
But almost immediately in the American camp began to happen strange, mystical thing. Despite the strengthened protection perimeter at night in tents shots were fired, and the next morning they found the murdered officers. In the bushes right in the center of the camp flashed surreal shadows, which made the very real shots and disappear to nowhere.
The Americans stepped up to the limit of protection and began a massive operation to clean up neighborhoods. Thousands of soldiers and bulldozers demolished jungle "cleaned the" area napalm, destroying all the settlements, as well as sources of food and water.
Ghosts continued to attack.
It took four months to solve the mystery: by coincidence Base 25th Division is located just above the underground guerrilla city! It was a network of tunnels with a total length of over 250 kilometers, which is dug in clay, perfect for this earth Cu Chi in the early XX century, during the French occupation.
However, Americans long rejoiced his discovery. Yes, they found a "hole" (more precisely, at the time the American command only guess at the beginning of their existence, not even close to representing the scale tunnel system), but how to deal with them?
To go down inside? For this purpose, we brought specially trained unit "tunnel rats" - puny crazy soldiers, equipped with headlamps, wire phones Gun with Laser Sight ...
