When it is disturbed by returning Reds, it gets into the respiratory system and causes nausea and painful burns. Even without CS, tunnel life is grim for the Viet Cong. A diary captured in a ...

The Cu Chi Tunnels of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, are now a hot tourist destination. Built by the communist Viet Cong in the 1940s, these tunnels were used for a variety of reasons. They housed ...

The Viet Cong dug elaborate tunnel complexes to use as safe bases, conducted hit-and-run attacks on Americans, and tried to avoid large-scale battles. The GIs usually moved slowly, calling in ...

B-52s have begun making tandem runs over Viet Cong tunnel areas, first with deep-penetration bombs that bore into the earth, then with a second wave of conventional bombs that destroy the surfaced ...

The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam, which was located near the ...