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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
Cross-sectional diagram of Vietcong tunnel system used by the communist insurgents during the Vietnam War. The tunnels were expanded further after the war with the French as a base for underground operations against the Ngo Dinh Diem government and later US-backed South Vietnamese governments. Due to the threat that the base area posed to the ...
Photojournalist Nick Ut was awarded the 1973 Pulitzer Price for his photo of South Vietnamese forces following terrified children, including 9-year-old Kim Phuc, center, as they run down Route 1 ...
The Sympathizer (miniseries) episodes (7 P) Pages in category "Television episodes about the Vietnam War" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
The memorial project was begun in 1983 by retired Army Nursing Corps Captain Diane Carlson Evans to honor over 265,000 women who served during the Vietnam Conflict. Evans had served in Vietnam in ...
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]