With just a bamboo stick, a bayonet and a revolver, this tunnel rat went into the unknown every time he entered a Viet Cong tunnel system, knowing death could be around the corner.

In the vast Ho Bo Woods, 35 miles northwest of Saigon, U.S. troops found a 14-mile tunnel complex that contained some 100,000 documents—listing everything from names of Viet Cong terrorists to ...

It took time for American soldiers to learn about the Viet Cong's tunnel system. In one instance, The United States Army set up Camp Cu Chi directly above a series of the Viet Cong's tunnels.

CU CHI, Vietnam -- When U.S. troops first deployed in large numbers to Vietnam in the mid-1960s, one of the first steps of the Army's 25th Division was to build a large base in the Cu Chi District ...

During the Vietnam War the U.S. Army brass decides to create a special unit called the Tunnel Rats. Their main mission is to clean-up the Viet-Cong network of tunnels found in the Cu-Chi district ...

For years, Viet Cong guerrillas lived in a network of tunnels three storeys deep, a labyrinth that spanned over 300km, connecting villages in virtual underground cities in this district north of ...

In Cu Chi, an entire Viet Cong army could hide, train and move from one area to another without being detected by the US who had built a massive base on top of a tunnel system. These Viet Cong ...

This extensive underground system, located just outside Ho Chi Minh City, began as a small network of hidden passageways and eventually became a fully functioning base of operations that has intrigued ...