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through the ho chi minh trail.
The Ho Chi Minh trail was an important supply route.
Originally the Soviets supplied the MiG17, then discontinued it and supplied only the MiG21. The Red Chinese picked up where the USSR left off and supplied their version of the MiG17, the J5 series jet. The Chicom (Chinese Communist) J6 (MiG19) was supplied only by Red China; the Soviets never supplied North Vietnam with MiG19s. Both the USSR and Red China supplied tanks, artillery, small arms, trucks, missiles, radar systems, and torpedo boats.
By sea along the coast, or the Ho Chi Minh trail which went thru Laos and Cambodia. Nothing went thru the DMZ (17th Parallel); without getting completely destroyed by airpower or artillery. The "Z" was no-man's land.
US supplies arrived by ship and airplanes. The USSR & Red China supplied enemy war material, which was shipped into Haiphong Harbor in North Vietnam and across the Red Chinese border; then TRUCKED down into South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh trail.
It was a trail between north and South Vietnam. it went from north to south through laos and cambodia at some parts. it was used mostly for the northern army(Viet Minh) to transport food and weapons back and forth between the north and the south. it was also a way into the south that wasn't patrolled by the south. The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a logistical system for support that ran between North and South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
Men and material infiltrated into South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh trail.
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Via the Ho Chi Minh trail.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail- which was not a trail, but a network of roads for truck traffic.
Men & material infiltrated into South Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. To train South Vietnamese soldiers