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Ho Chi Minh Trail Summary
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a 12,000-mile network of jungle roads and trails paralleling the Annamite Cordillera used by the North Vietnamese to transport communications, supplies, and troops to South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. The North Vietnamese...
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Ho Chi Minh Trail
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Former trail system, extending from northern Vietnam to southern Vietnam. It was opened in 1959 and used by North Vietnamese troops in the Vietnam War as the major military supply route. Starting south of Hanoi, the main trail traversed Laos and...
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Ho Chi Minh trail Information
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The Ho Chi Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia. The system provided support, in the form of...


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The Boston Globe
Photographer Visits Ho Chi Minh Trail
08/02/1990: 384 words, approx. 1 pages
NEW YORK - Philip Jones Griffiths, a photographer who spent three years covering the Vietnam War, took a trip down memory lane last year. But he did it the hard way -- on the Ho Chi Minh trail. When he first saw what...
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Pacific Affairs
The Road to Freedom: A History of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.(Book review)
09/22/2006: 595 words, approx. 2 pages
THE ROAD TO FREEDOM: A History of the Ho Chi Minh Trail. By Virginia Morris with Clive Hills. Bangkok: Orchid Press. 2006. xix, 180 pp. (Photos, maps.) US$29.95, cloth. ISBN 974-524-076-1. The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a network of routes by...
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AP News
Ho Chi Minh Trail area safe for wildlife
3/3/2007: 921 words, approx. 3 pages
Four decades after U.S. warplanes plastered it with bombs, a remote corner of the old Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia is making a comeback as a treasure trove of endangered wildlife.Tigers prowl imperiously down tracks where weapons-laden North Vietnamese trucks once rolled. Elephants shepherd...
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AP News
Taliban are eluding U.S. hunters
4/15/2007: 952 words, approx. 3 pages
Troops with powerful rifle scopes scanned mountain ridges for elusive, black-clad Taliban infiltrators. Afghan soldiers, hit by a roadside bomb, pressed on into the valley. U.S. Special Forces swept through the sinister alleys of its main settlement.The strike, carried out by about 200 American and...
 


 

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