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The famous "Tunnels of Cu Chi" located in southern III Corps (just west of Saigon) have created a somewhat exaggerated image of under ground warfare in Vietnam. All US involved wars, going back to the US Civil War 1861-1865, have involved some sort of digging, trenches, and some tunnelling. Sometimes, such as in WWI, it was referred to Sapping (Sappers), and mining.

Communist forces in South Vietnam had a small net work of tunnels, equipped with underground hospitals, storage facilities, etc. The biggest network was located in Cu Chi. These tunnels, dug by hand, were big enough for the average human being to move through by crouching (moving similar to a spider), or crawling. There were possibly some larger tunnels located near the Ho Chi Minh trail, as that is where vehicles mostly moved, and it was bombed by US aircraft so heavily, and so constantly, moving underground would have been the more secure method of successfully getting through. And since the Ho Chi Minh net work of trails (roads) was in Lao's, the NVA (North Viet Army) would have had to time to dig them.

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