Dog sized trap

Americans try using dogs, VC counter the threat. They learnt to use captured American soap, cola, shaving cream etc to give themselves an American smell, and built traps like these for those dogs that were not deterred. In any case , the dogs were soon withdrawn from use down the tunnels because they could not detect booby traps, and their handlers refused to send them down.

American War Tourism 1: Cu Chi + War Remnants Museum

December 24th 2006
On our first full day we went to my choice: the Cu Chi tunnels, a cleaned up version of an amazing complex of tunnels from which the Vietnamese conducted guerrilla warfare against the US. The tunnel network ran for 100s of kilometres, allowing the Viet Cong to conduct the war while the Americans defoliated and bombed the surface above them. ... read more

Asia » Vietnam

The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more

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