Don't mean to disrupt your thought process...but it's NOT a trail. It's a network of hundreds of roads. When one "trail" was destroyed by bombs, another was immediately built next to it to replace the destroyed one. This went on for many many years...and extra roads (trails, paths, routes, what ever name you wish to use) were built as auxillery trails (used when needed). All together, this formed a network. It was a good trail too; trucks used it 24/7; US Air Force AC-130 SPECTRE Gunships used to go "truck hunting" on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Of course the "trail" shot back to, and 6 Spectres were lost while on those hunting trips.
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The Ho Chi Min trail has no relevance to WWII or to Japan. It was the trail through the jungle that allowed Ho Chi Min's troops (AKA the North Vietnamese) to resupply their forces in South Viet Nam.
The main part of the Ho Chi Minh trail covered 450 miles. The trail was logistical system.
1959
The North Vietnamese Army had been using the Ho Chi Minh trail as early as 1959.
The Ho Chi Minh trail was an important supply route.
After the Vietnam war ended, many Cuban engineers & builders worked on bridges along the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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NVA and their engineers (laborers).
through the ho chi minh trail.
Men and material infiltrated into South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh trail.