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The tunnel rats were American, Australian, New Zealand, and South Vietnamese soldiers who performed underground search and destroy missions during the Vietnam War. Later, similar teams were used by the Soviet Army during the Soviet–Afghan War and by the Israel Defense Forces in campaigns in the Middle East .
This is a high resolution and intriguing original photograph from the war itself demonstrating the lowering of a 'tunnel rat' into one of the Vietcong tunnels, a highly dangerous job. It is in the public domain as it is the work of a US Army Soldier/Employee. Articles this image appears in Tunnel rat Creator U.S. Army Signal Corps
"Tunnel Rat: Marine Lance Corporal John R. Gartrell (Fort Smith, Arkansas) crawls into a captured North Vietnamese bunker during Operation Meade River, southwest of Da Nang. He is a member of the 26th Marines, 1st Marine Division." From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine Corps Archives & Special Collections OFFICIAL USMC PHOTOGRAPH
English: SGT Ronald A. Payne (Atlanta, GA) Squad Leader, CO A, 1st BN, 5th Mechanized Infantry, 25th Infantry Division, moves through a tunnel in search of Viet Cong and their equipment, during Operation "Cedar Falls" in the Hobo Woods about 25 miles North of Saigon. 24 January 1967
Photographer Nick Ut, who won a Pulitzer Prize for an iconic photo he took in Vietnam in 1972, was working at the groundbreaking ceremony for the VinFast electric vehicle plant in Moncure.
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In Vietnam, Bosch was a "tunnel rat" (nicknamed "Hari Kari Bosch"), with the 1st Infantry Division—a specialized soldier whose job it was to go into the maze of tunnels used as barracks, hospitals, and on some occasions, morgues, by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army. [1]
Tunnel Rats, also known as 1968 Tunnel Rats, is a 2008 German-Canadian war suspense film written and directed by Uwe Boll. The film is based on the factual duties of tunnel rats during the Vietnam War. In a documentary for the film, Boll revealed the film did not have a script, and instead the actors improvised their lines. [1]