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Tango01 | 12 Sep 2016 12:12 p.m. PST |
… About the Ho Chi Minh Trail. "ACCORDING TO AN official U.S. government history of the war in Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Trail ranks among the "great achievements of military engineering of the 20th Century."[1] High praise, indeed. Certainly the famous network of jungle and mountain roadways used by Hanoi to secretly smuggle men and materiel from the communist north into South Vietnam rivals in scope the 25,000 miles of trenches dug along the Western Front in World War One, Hitler's vaunted "Atlantic Wall" or the Allies' Mulberry Harbour of D-Day. The trails spanned most of the 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) between the North Vietnamese capital and the Mekong Delta. And at the peak of the fighting in South East Asia, it provided safe passage for hundreds of thousands of regular troops and VC insurgents, plus enough materiel, fuel and ammunition to supply the communist war effort in the south for more than a decade…" More here link Amicalement Armand |
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