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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
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 .
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.
"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
The opening scene depicting the Vietnam War was filmed a short distance away in a rice paddy, two miles (3.2 km) from central Hanalei, Hawaii, and 200 yards (183 m) from the Kuhio Highway (Route 56). Additional parts of the film were shot in: Salt Lake City, Utah, Sun Valley, California, and Castaic, California (which served as the training camp).
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]
The rats were provided by a Tanzania-based organization that is training African giant pouched rats to combat wildlife trafficking, detect diseases and perform other useful tasks.