For arms, ammunition and special equipment, the Vietcong depended on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Other needs were met inside South Vietnam. Main force Vietcong units were uniformed, full-time soldiers ...

Vo Minh Triet was born in South Vietnam to a family of farmers, and in school he learned to hate the colonial powers who ruled his country. When independence was declared by Ho Chi Minh in 1945 ...

An hour outside of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, a vast network of tunnels ... the National Liberation Front turned to guerrilla tactics. They would launch sneak attacks and surprise enemies ...

Their tactics were brutal. As a result of this brutality and lack of sensitivity, they turned the Vietnamese people against ... wanted to see along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the Vietcong’s supply ...

The biggest, which occured in 1930, was led by Ho Chi Minh, an ardent Vietnamese nationalist who had studied Marxist revolutionary methods in Moscow. From 1939 to 1943 the Japanese took control of ...

The American tactics turned the Vietnamese people against them ... They also wanted to see along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the Vietcong’s supply route. Napalm did clear much of the undergrowth ...