Ho Chi Minh Trail, elaborate system of mountain and jungle paths and trails used by North Vietnam to infiltrate troops and supplies into South Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos during the Vietnam War.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail (Vietnamese: Đường mòn Hồ Chí Minh), also called Annamite Range Trail (Vietnamese: Đường Trường Sơn) was a logistical network of roads and trails that ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia.

This is a 1965 Phạm Thăng map of the Ho Chi Minh Trail during the Vietnam War. The map depicts the region from Thailand and Cambodia to the South China Sea and from North Vietnam and Hainan, China to Nha Trang in South Vietnam.

Download Image of Ho Chi Minh Trail network map - Public domain map. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. A map of the Ho Chi Minh Trail network.. Dated: 1990. Topics: ho chi minh trail, maps of the vietnam war, maps, high resolution.

Dec 22, 2013 · By 1973, it became a two-lane highway that ran from the mountain passes of North Vietnam to the Chu Pong Massif in South Vietnam. By 1974, the trail was a four-lane wide route and also boasted four oil pipelines.

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The United States military operation against the Ho Chi Minh Trail traffic began in 1959. The (PAVN) connected a series of old trails leading from North Vietnam to South Vietnam via...

Dec 16, 2020 · One of the major focal points of the war was the infiltration of North Vietnamese Army (NVA) troops, Viet Cong (VC), and other militia personnel into the south via the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Laos and Cambodia were major factors within …

Sep 2, 2016 · Built upon a tangle secret foot and bicycle paths hacked out of the jungles by Viet Minh forces during the earlier French Indo China War, construction of what became the Ho Chi Minh Trail began in earnest in 1959.

All told 671 were lost during the Vietnam War. A wing tip from a downed Phantom F-4 jet in the Mu Gia pass area, one of the 40-odd planes shot down in this area. At any given time there were three to six thousand trucks operating on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Trucks were the prime target of US interdiction efforts.