Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The Ho Chi Minh Trail


The Ho Chi Minh Trail was secret a series of roadways, waterways, and truck routes connecting North Vietnam to South Vietnam for safe travel with war supplies and aid. It also connected with neighboring countries of Laos and Cambodia for extra support. The trail was named after a Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh.

Two facts about the Ho Chi Minh:
1. Over ten percent of the casualties of soldiers being transported on this roadway were cases of Malaria.
2. Vietnamese Soldiers were transported from the North to the South on this road. Sometimes, as many as 20,000 a month.

http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1875.html

6 comments:

  1. This trail was clever, that is a lot of soldiers

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  2. This trail was very interesting, I can remember learning about this in a war class I took. It is quite amazing that 20,000 people were transported and we could really do nothing to stop them.

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  3. I remember learning about this in high school. It sounds like Malaria is not a good time.

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    1. Amazing how a trail that big can be kept a secret.

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  4. I found it very interesting to read about this trail and learn that as many as 20,000 soldiers a month could travel on this trail.

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    1. It sounds like an interesting "secret" road, but the malaria there may have been a reason to shut it down to stop the spread.

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