Vietnam. Route ground warfare

Smash the local guerrillas and failed, despite the fact that close to their base put the whole American Division (25th Infantry) and a rather big part of the 18th Division Army of South Vietnam. The fact that the guerrillas dug a whole network of multi-level tunnels with a total length of over 200 kilometers, with a plurality of masked outcrops, foxholes, bunkers, underground workshops, warehouses and barracks, on top of thickly covered with mines and traps.





The tour involves active participation of tourists in what is happening. For example, can offer to find camouflaged entrance to a tunnel on a small patch in the jungle, and then - to squeeze into the hatch.
Surprisingly, this is generally quite possibly even quite large crawls Western tourists, though with difficulty. Bins brought to the surface, and the flat roof replaced with high slopes, so that it is spacious enough for a comfortable staring at mannequins in the form of Vietcong guerrillas in depicting natural habitat.





Like many others, the metal was terrible deficit, so the guerrillas collected numerous unexploded bombs and shells (and their tiny snout dumped on some absolutely incredible amount, jungle carpet bombing from B-52s simply demolished and turned into a lunar landscape district), sawn , the explosives were allowed to manufacture self-made mines and metal spikes to reforge and spears for traps in the jungle.





In addition to the workshops, were dining room, kitchen (with a specially arranged outside smokeless fireplace, not to issue spot cooking column of smoke), a workshop for making shapes and, of course, room for political information.





Three-tier system of tunnels secretly carved in solid clay soil with primitive tools numerous groups of three or four people. One digs, one pulls the ground out of the tunnel to the vertical shaft, one picks it up, and another drags somewhere and hide under leaves or throws into the river.





When the team makes its way to the nearby, in the vertical shaft is inserted into the pipe for ventilation thick hollow bamboo stem, mine sleep, and bambuchinu top under camouflage mound, or even as a stump.





Americans used to search for tunnels entrances and ventilation shafts dogs. Then there began to hide trophy form, usually a jacket M65, which Americans often thrown when providing first aid and evacuate the wounded. Doggie sensed the familiar smell, took him for his and ran past.





If the input is still found, then it tried to pour water or run back with tear gas. But the multi-level system of locks and water locks fairly reliably protects tunnels, loses only a small segment of his partisans just rained on both sides of the wall and forget about its existence, eventually pulling out a workaround.





Since numerous attacks and bombing did not bring the desired result, the Americans finally had to crawl under the earth itself. In Tunnel rats, «tunnel rats", recruited low desperate guys ready with one gun climb into the unknown, where they waited for not giving breathe distress, darkness, mines, traps, poisonous snakes, scorpions, and, after all this, if you're lucky - evil partisans.
Now sixty meters of tunnels widened and lit so that tourists could squeeze through them. Even they have to move in the eternal poluprisede while scratching the walls of the hips, elbows, shoulders and head. It's like running in endless tables.
Jungle in Cu Chi dormant set of surprises, from the already mentioned mines, which undermined even tanks like this M41 to famed movie homemade traps, some of which can be seen near.





"Tiger Trap". GI goes himself quietly, suddenly the ground beneath his feet, he yawns and falls to the bottom of the pit studded clubs. If he was not lucky and he did not die immediately, but will scream in pain, next gather his comrades, trying to pull the unfortunate. Needless to say that around the traps in several locations of the tunnels made outcrops on camouflaged sniper position?

Or more humane traps, "Vietnamese souvenir." There comes a soldier on an inconspicuous hole, covered with leaves on top of a piece of paper ...

Leg fails, it pierces the bottom pin, pins on the sides not only pierced, but do not give a pull. As a rule, the soldiers did not die, but the result was deprived of his legs, then getting lessons in Saigon Hospital of leg pins for memory. Hence the name.

As you have probably noticed, special attention was paid not only to the problem pierce foe, but pinned to the place that does not give off the hook. That this "basket" placed in flooded rice fields or river banks, hiding under water. Paratrooper jumps out of a helicopter or boat, Opa! - Come ...

However, it happens that the task was not hurt, and dunk. Then put here are grindilka in which GI quickly stuffed himself under its own weight.

For fans to enter the house without knocking, just knocking valiant blow the door over it hung here, such a device. Sluggishness sent immediately to the light, quick time to put forward machine - for the bottom half of the trap was hung on a separate loop. So quick, in the words of a Vietnamese tour guide, then went to Thailand,

Well, the most simple, reliable and popular design in the film industry. Since flying is much faster "home", problems with the two halves is no longer necessary. And sweep. Gido she likes the most.