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.

The tunnel system is strikingly similar to the Viet Cong's infamous Cu Chi tunnels during the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong moved weapons and supplies through their tunnels, and, like Hamas, they hid ...

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.

The eerie attraction is an elaborate maze of tunnels stretching over a length of 132 miles that used to serve as the headquarters of the Viet Cong guerrillas. For years the […] Skip to content ...

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 ...

In the pitch darkness of the narrow tunnel, the smell of packed mud assailed the nostrils. Countless people must have traversed them, without fear or dread. But for me, panic was just a step away ...

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 ...