Vietnamese Defense Against Invasion
All I remember of the war in Vietnam. A lot of victims, the great battles and in the end it all came down to it, like any war pain in vain for some people. As in every war there are those who attack and those who defend themselves. The war is all allowed. Let’s look at some of the means of struggle of those who were on the defensive.
Cu Chi (Cu Chi) – the countryside about 70 miles northwest of Saigon, became a thorn in the ass first French and then the Americans. This is a case where “the land was burning under the boots of the invaders.” Crush local guerrillas did not succeed, despite the fact that close to their base have placed an entire American division (25 Infantry), and so little of the 18-division Army of South Vietnam. The fact that the guerrillas had dug a network of multi-level tunnels totaling over 200 miles, with lots of masked exits to the surface, the shooting of cells, bunkers, underground workshops, warehouses and barracks, above thickly covered with mines and traps.
A large group can enjoy the bus trip involves active participation of tourists in what is happening. For example, can offer to find a camouflaged entrance to a tunnel on a small patch in the jungle, and then – to squeeze into this hole.
Surprisingly, it is generally quite possible, even fairly large Ants Western tourists, though with difficulty. Bunkers displayed on the surface, and flat roofs replaced by the high slopes, so that is spacious enough for comfortable staring at the mannequins in the form of the Viet Cong, representing the guerrillas in their natural habitat.
In addition to the workshops, were dining room, kitchen (with a specially arranged outside smokeless hearth, did not give the place a pillar of smoke cooking), workshop on tailoring the form …
..and, of course, room for political information
And the tunnels. Three-tier system of tunnels, secretly carved into the solid clay soil primitive tools of numerous groups of three or four people. One digs, one pulls the earth from the tunnel to the vertical shaft, one picks it up, and another drags somewhere and hide under leaves or throws into a river.
Since many attacks and bombing failed to produce the desired result, the Americans eventually had to crawl under the earth itself. In Tunnel rats, “tunnel rats”, recruited low thieves finished with a gun to go into the unknown, where they waited for not giving a breath and tightness, dark, booby traps, poisonous snakes, scorpions and, after all this, if you’re lucky – angry partisans.
Jungle in Cu Chi dormant many surprises, from the already-mentioned mines, which undermined even tanks, like this M41 to the famous movie homemade traps, some of which can see up close.
“The trap for a tiger.” There is a Gee Ay quietly, suddenly the ground under his feet opens and he falls to the bottom of bristling stakes pit. If it were not lucky and he did not die immediately, but will scream in pain, next to gather his friends, trying to pull the accident. Do I have to say that around the traps in several locations of the tunnels made exits to the surface, the camouflaged sniper position?
Or, more humane traps, “Vietnamese souvenir. There comes a soldier in an invisible hole, closed the top piece of paper with the leaves …
The foot falls, pin the bottom of its punches, pins on the sides not only pierce but do not give it out. Typically, soldiers did not die, but the result was deprived of his feet, were then extracted in a Saigon hospital from leg pins on the memory. Hence the name.
As you’ve probably noticed, particular attention was paid not only the problem pierce adversary, but to pin that to the point, do not give off the hook. It is this “basket” placed on the flooded rice fields or near the shores of rivers, hiding under the water. Paratrooper jumps from a helicopter or boat, Ooops! – Come …
However, there are that the task was not hurt, but nafig dunk. Then put here such grindilki, in which Gee Ai quickly himself stuffed under their own weight.
Well, the most simple, reliable and popular in the film structure. So sweep. Guide she likes most.
