What happened to Vinh Moc Where did the people go?
What happened to Vinh Moc Where did the people go?
Vinh Moc (Vĩnh Mốc) is a tunnel complex in Quảng Trị, Vietnam. The villagers initially dug the tunnels to move their village 10 metres underground but the American forces designed bombs that burrowed down 10 metres. Eventually, against these odds, the villagers moved the village to a depth of 30 metres.
How long did people live in the tunnels underneath Vinh Moc?
Vinh Moc Tunnels (about 100 kilometers north of Hue and 550 kilometers south of Hanoi,) contain remnants of Vietnam War tunnels, where a community of 600 people lived underground for more than four years.
How deep were the tunnels in Vietnam?
There were a variety of tunnel types: squad-size tunnels generally were less than 6-feet deep and 100-feet long; company-size tunnels were wider but not extensively compartmented; and battalion-size tunnels could burrow 50 feet underground and sometimes contain up to four different levels.
How did the Vietcong build tunnels?
Communist forces began digging a network of tunnels under the jungle terrain of South Vietnam in the late 1940s, during their war of independence from French colonial authority. Tunnels were often dug by hand, only a short distance at a time.
What do you know about Ho Chi Minh trail?
The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a military supply route running from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia to South Vietnam. The route sent weapons, manpower, ammunition and other supplies from communist-led North Vietnam to their supporters in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
How big are Cu Chi Tunnels?
Cu Chi is about 40 km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City in Southern Vietnam. The Cu Chi Tunnels are an elaborate underground community made up of 250 km of tunnels and chambers below the city.
How many tunnel rats were there in Vietnam?
I would come to learn it was the latter. Our tunnel rat unit was small, with at most 120 men in the country at any time, and a total of around 700 who served from 1965 to 1972.
How many tunnel rats died in the Vietnam War?
Imagine been alone down there, a million miles from home during those crazy 10,000 days in Vietnam. That both sets of men had to endure this life is appalling. There were never more than 100 Tunnel Rats in country at any one time and around 700 in total. There were 36 killed and 200 wounded.
Why were Cu Chi tunnels built?
The Cu Chi tunnels were built over a period of 25 years that began sometime in the late 1940s during the war against the French. The excavations were used mostly for communication between villages and to evade French army sweeps of the area.