@harrisonenyeart: it’s spooky down there… 🇻🇳

Ilmatar :

People think the Cu Chi Tunnels were built during the Vietnam War. The network actually began years earlier during the struggle against French colonial rule. Construction started in the late 1940s as local resistance fighters dug communication routes between villages northwest of Saigon. Over the following decades, those routes expanded into a vast underground system connecting command centers, supply depots, workshops, medical facilities, and living quarters. What made this possible was not just labor. It was geology. The Cu Chi district sits on lateritic clay, a dense, iron rich soil that becomes extremely stable when compacted. In many regions, tunnels of this scale would have collapsed under seasonal rains or their own weight. In Cu Chi, the soil allowed extensive underground construction with relatively simple tools. By the 1960s, parts of the network extended across multiple levels. Hidden entrances, ventilation systems, storage areas, and carefully dispersed cooking vents reduced the chances of detection. Smoke from underground kitchens could be released far from its source, making aerial observation far less effective. Most military fortifications are designed to defend territory. The Cu Chi Tunnels were designed to make territory irrelevant. Fighters could appear, disappear, relocate supplies, communicate, and survive bombardment without remaining on the surface. In January 1966, the United States launched Operation Crimp, deploying thousands of troops to locate and destroy major sections of the network. Despite significant disruption, the tunnel system continued to function and remained a central component of Viet Cong operations throughout the war. Most people see the tunnels as an engineering achievement. They were also a geological one. Without the lateritic clay beneath Cu Chi, one of the most extensive underground military networks of the twentieth century might never have existed.

hổ không biết edit :

hãy ví dụ du khách ở năm 1970

ⁿori :

mắt đỏ

Kiều Lương Côn🤣😔 :

địa đạo củ chi à

AbandonedCarsUSA🇺🇲 :

dưa hấu 4455 :

t biết nhưng t vẫn sợ

HaiLong :

first

👉🏻Wanzzz👈🏻 :

Big fact , in the war’s time , the tunnel is even smaller 😭

Pug anmi🐶🕶️ :

Mắt ổng đỏ dữ z

Socneang :

eyes

Đại thiếu gia họ Nguyễn :

bụi có năm 19xx :

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Hả :

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Hoàng Châu :

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Phong :

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