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  2. Tunnel rat - Wikipedia

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    Tunnel rats were generally men of smaller stature (165 cm (5 ft 5 in) and under), who were able to maneuver more comfortably in the narrow tunnels. [8] Tom Mangold and John Penycate, authors of one of the definitive accounts of tunnel warfare during the Vietnam War, reported that the U.S. tunnel rats were almost exclusively soldiers of European ...

  3. Tunnel Rats (film) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Iron Triangle (Vietnam) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Uncommon Valor - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. John F. Baker Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Baker was born in Davenport, Iowa, and attended Moline High School from 1963 to 1966. At 5' 1", he was a gymnast before joining the army. He became a "tunnel rat" in Vietnam, a soldier who entered Viet Cong tunnels searching out the enemy and destroying their caches of war material.

  7. 'Tunnel rats' and an engineering marvel - AOL

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    Jan. 16—Sitting beneath the Salish Mountains, the Flathead Railroad Tunnel just southwest of Trego stands as an engineering marvel. Each day, more than 40 freight trains and at least one ...

  8. How rats got from Mongolia to New York City subway tunnels

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    By the 1750s, brown rats were in New York City, destined to be subway kings. Ironically, for how widespread it is, the brown rat is a homebody. "In its natural habitat, it has a very small home ...

  9. File:Sgt. Ronald A. Payne Tunnel Rat-Vietnam War, 1-24-1967 ...

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    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