The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a network of supply routes, to which new routes were being constantly added. It was routinely attacked. However, it wasn't like a paved road, which requires lengthy construction to build. It was a series of jungle trails which could be changed and added to as desired. So destroying it wasn't exactly a simple task.
The main part of the Ho Chi Minh trail covered 450 miles. The trail was logistical system.
The North Vietnamese Army had been using the Ho Chi Minh trail as early as 1959.
NVA and their engineers (laborers).
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US Air Power tried to destroy the HCM Trail: B52 Stratoforts were the primary attackers; while AC-130 Spectre Gunships used to "truck hunt" the trail.
The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a ROAD NETWORK, leading from North Vietnam, south through the neutral country of Laos, into South Vietnam. Portions of the trail may have been "supported" by bases in the neutral country of Cambodia.
The main part of the Ho Chi Minh trail covered 450 miles. The trail was logistical system.
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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).
The jungle paths were called the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The U.S. tried many times to destroy it but the 100,000 North Vietnamese workers kept it going.
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The HO CHI MINH Trail was "Very" effective. But it wasn't a trail. It was a "Network" of roads and trails. If the US could have "widened" the war and involved Cambodia & Laos, the Ho Chi Minh could have easily been destroyed or occupied by US/Allied forces. Of course, then, possibly Red China and/or the Soviets would have had something to say about it. Red China DID enter the Korean War when US Forces invaded North Korea in 1950. So we simply bombed it, and conducted covert operations against it.