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This museum was quite widely known under the name "Cu Chi Tunnels." It was a system of underground tunnels in the suburban area of ​​Saigon, the Viet Cong used during the Vietnam War. One of the bloggers will try today to tell you the truth about these tunnels.




Visitors are greeted forever frozen carcass of American tanks:



His once formidable weapon ever inclined to the ground

To combat the tunnels United States applied spraying defoliants, which caused a large-scale chemical contamination of water and soil, as well as special units ("tunnel rats"), which suffered heavy losses.



The episode of this fight was captured on a rather famous historical photos

Vietnamese guerrillas dug under the feet of the enemy's entire underground cities where they lived made weapons and even had children. This is how the device looks like about one of the clusters "underground city»:



The Americans, of course, tried to pump poison gas into the tunnels, but on his way stood clever water filters, traps, they also stopped by specially trained dogs-murderers, who also tried to use to combat the underground guerrillas. No matter how amazing, but the US Army found such desperate guys who were willing to do to climb into the ground - and have created a special unit "tunnel rats". The main problem was the complexion, as standards were extremely narrow, calculated on the puny Vietnamese. Stuck there with an average American physique was easy. And if they manage to squeeze into that trap intruders waited with snakes and scorpions.

Now the tour at the Museum Cu Chi suggest to pass a small plot of land under the extended three times go. Personally, I could not make myself, although I do not suffer from claustrophobia pathological. On the surface were here are camouflaged hatches:



Underground work is in full swing. As mentioned above, there made weapons. This layout shows how the Viet Cong sawing unexploded aerial bomb amerskoy to get out of it for improvised explosive mines and grenades:



Vietcong in the jungles of the oldest skills used all mankind, that from the materials at hand to arrange for GIs most unpleasant trap:



They were hunted in the jungle like wild animals:



Museum staff member shows the "hedgehog" which was suspended from a tree and operates tripping disguised pitches:



Leisure vetnkonga:





This, of course, models:



But from a distance it can be mistaken for real people.



Mourners guests jungle defeated all the same tank.



Source: visualhistory.livejournal.com