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Ho Chi Minh Trail |
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Ho Chi Minh TrailFormer trail system, extending from northern Vietnam to southern Vietnam. It was opened in 1959 and used by North Vietnamese troops in the Vietnam War as the major military supply route. Starting south of Hanoi, the main trail traversed Laos and Cambodia on its way to South Vietnam and required more than a month's march to travel. With underground support facilities, including hospitals and weapons caches, it was the main route for the invasion of South Vietnam in 1975. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a network of routes by which men and munitions were sent, during the Second Indochina War, from North Vietnam to the battlefields of South Vietnam and eventually also to Cambodia. When the CIA wanted to recruit Montangard tribesmen in the Vietnam highlands to fight against the North Vietnamese who were funneling supplies to the south along the Ho Chi Minh trail, the tribesmen wanted nothing to do with the proposal. In bombing the supply route to the Viet Cong, known as the Ho chi Minh trail, through Laos, our bombers are required to confine their attacks to targets within 204 feet from the trail itself. |
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