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Copper fibers created electrochemically.The image colored by photoshop.
Courtesy of wadah mahmoud
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Instrument used: Inspect Family
Magnification: 10,000
Voltage: 5 kV
Spot: 2.5
Working Distance: 13.7
Detector: SE
Củ Chi was a site of battles and military campaigns in the 1960s/1970s. A network of secret tunnels was built there from 1948 (war against French colonists), later expanded by Việt cộng partisans and used as a base of operations during the Tết offensive of 1968. The region was mostly leveled and destroyed during the war, today some of the tunnels are accessible to tourists, with 1960s war scenes reconstructed. Tourists see an old propaganda film and are shown around the site in a guided tour, including a walk through a tunnel (enlarged and equipped with electric light).
It's a trap ... you step on it and fall down onto the spikes. Ouch.
The Cu Chi Tunnels made up an elaborate tunnel network around the village of Cu Chi, which was a Viet Cong stronghold. Throughout the Vietnam War, neither the Americans nor the French before them were able to take over the area, which was only 30 kilometers outside of Saigon. The tunnels made possible communication and coordination between the VC-controlled enclaves, isolated from each other by South Vietnamese and American land and air operations. They also allowed the VC to mount surprise attacks wherever the tunnels were -- even within the perimeter of US military bases. The US military carpet-bombed and sprayed the area with napalm and agent Orange repeatedly, to no avail (the famous photo of the naked Vietnamese girl running from a napalm attack was from this area).
Củ Chi was a site of battles and military campaigns in the 1960s/1970s. A network of secret tunnels was built there from 1948 (war against French colonists), later expanded by Việt cộng partisans and used as a base of operations during the Tết offensive of 1968. The region was mostly leveled and destroyed during the war, today some of the tunnels are accessible to tourists, with 1960s war scenes reconstructed. Tourists see an old propaganda film and are shown around the site in a guided tour, including a walk through a tunnel (enlarged and equipped with electric light).
Tourists posing with dummies of guerilla fighters.
Photo I took after the explosion and fireball. Mike Massey, Rich Purkis, Gary Novak and I, were the only guys from 3rd platoon in Cu Chi base camp from Katum at the time. We were in a bunker together with a couple others when the place was blown up. Rich and Gary were at Cu Chi recovering from wounds after hitting a road mine on track 34 on Dec. 17, 1967. Mike was there recovering from wounds after track 33 which he was driving hit a land mine on Dec. 22, 1967. I was there for minor wrist surgery. When we came out of the bunker, this is what we saw. Our battalion area was destroyed. Photo by Frank Thomas Goins (Tom).
Photo by Doug Willmeroth - 25th Admin. Fire ball from the exploding ammo dump near the 1/5 area. The explosions were on the morning of Tet 1968 and the photos were taken from the 25th Admin area - quite a distance away. Looking back, it's hard to believe we were under that fire ball and survived. Courtesy of bobcat.ws/