Vinh Moc Tunnels
Vinh Moc Tunnels village - a legend in the anti-US, national salvation - has become a traditional place of patriotic education alive for the younger generations, as interesting tourist attractions, attractive and unique for visitors trousers. There are a foreign visitor wrote: "Vinh Moc Tunnels as an ancient castle lies dormant in the ground, hidden bags of bizarre things people do it and time in which it was born."
Vinh Moc Tunnels (Vinh Moc village, Vinh Thach, Vinh Linh, Quang Tri province) is a military structure - Civil War in Vietnam by Vietnam against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the United Republic United States of America. This tunnel system exists in the north of the Ben Hai River, Hien Luong Bridge over the years 1965-1972.
In the 1960s, the government of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem did not respect the Geneva Agreement, 1954 and not to conduct elections as scheduled. Together with the attack on the rebel movement in the south, the US has tried to provoke, a war against Vietnam forces protect democratic republic in Vinh Linh frontiers. In 1965, the US has created the Gulf of Tonkin incident to start a war to destroy the North by air power, which is the target of Vinh Linh leading raiding.
During the years 1965 - 1972, Vinh Linh continually raiding totaling more than half a million tons of bombs of all kinds. On average, every citizen Vinh Linh has suffered 7 tons of US bombs.
Tunnels first appeared in Vietnam since 1947 at the Phu Tho Hoa (now in Tan Binh - Ho Chi Minh City). Then, the years 1961 - 1965, has appeared in Cu Chi tunnel system spread across 5 communes. In late 1963, Mr. Tran Nam Trung from the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam in South Vietnam on the way to the North visited the combat area in Vinh Giang (Vinh Linh). After observing the terrain, geology here, he suggests should dig tunnels of Vinh Linh as in Cu Chi. With the motto: "One foot does not go, do not leave an inch. Each village is a fortress". Through the directives of Vinh Linh district commissioner, the head of the armed police Le Xuan Vy 140 people were unit commanders and local people quickly dig tunnels. The work was started from scratch in 1965 and was completed on 18.02.1966. Especially as this works commanders (engineer) at the time of his education has only completed primary. (Currently, he is a former lieutenant colonel in the city is sheltered Dong Ha and blinded by wounds affected by the war) .For that, if it comes to justice, the work must have his name attached to new .
To ensure that hundreds of people dining, accommodation, living safe, convenient, both sides of the tunnel they built a lot of apartments, each apartment is enough room for three to four people. Inside the tunnel has three wells, a hall (with a capacity of 50 people), clinics, maternity homes, surgical station, Hoang Cam stove, rice warehouse, station phone book ...
The two sides separated by the main road from three to five meters deep recess carved into the basement into a small, used as living space of a home. Tunnels are composed of three floors. Deep ground floor from 12 to 15 m, is inhabited by people.
Depth 18 m second floor is where headquarters of the Party Committee, People's Committee and Military Command. 22 m deep third floor used for storage logistics supply and service Con Co island's combat troops Vinh Moc population.
According to statistics, there were 18,000 days of training were mobilized to Vinh Moc tunnels in two years. Tunnels are dug in basaltic lands since 1965 and completed two years later, in 1967 with a total length of over 2,000 m main shaft. Just 4 m with 1 family apartment, 0.8 m wide, 1.8 m deep, for 4 people in. The atmosphere makes clay inside tunnels increasingly more rigid so it remains almost originality until today. Tunnel system consists of 3 floors: the first floor is 12 m deep, used to live, the second floor of 15 m above the ground, is used as the storage of food and weapons or meeting and final layer depth 23 m, is used to avoid the bombs. Even the deepest level, is still higher than 23 m sea level to 3 meters, so people living in the tunnels still occur normally during the rainy season. Complete Vinh Moc tunnel system has 13 vents out, including seven sea vents, six doors up the hill, each hatch is regarded as a vent. At the cellar door has installed anti-collapse and permanent wood-reinforced to prevent collapse. Tunnels residents rarely go out. They just needed time spent outside, while not dangerous.
Life under low light tunnels, humid in winter, hot in summer, no sanitation, virtually ensuring a majority of the tunnels are parasites, silver skin and bone disease . Life underground is not suitable for human beings, always light. Therefore, most villages are saving tunnel lighted materials such as oil, grease, only when necessary, such as meetings, emergency patients, newborn care ... new lights use. Also, the lack of food, food and basic necessities as well as the biggest problem for the tunnel dwellers.
Normal life has existed for years in the ground with the full concept of life like education, recreation, entertainment, love, baby ... in a space approximately 1.8 m of road tunnel.
To maintain the breed, to have descendants, the family, the clan, the Vinh Moc tunnels residents have lived divided many different tunnels. While living in the tunnels at Vinh Linh in general, has had 60 children are born, the Vinh Moc Tunnels separately had 17 babies born inside the tunnels. Earth is the place of religion in people's fierce war years, while the largest has about 1,200 people live. For nearly 2,000 days and nights exist, inside tunnels no one was injured and there were 17 babies born, fully articulate the value and significance of the Vinh Moc tunnels, while the outstanding volume of pieces land and its people. There are cellar was created to make delivery room, raising children. Although life inside the tunnels is tough, but many generations of children continue to be born.
Experiences in the real wars, Vinh Moc tunnel system difficult to meet the requirement of residence, live, fight safely for people demarcation zone, even caused a few losses lives. Typically the event on February 26, 1967, the tunnel Don Due (Vinh Hoa) US bombs crashed, killing 4 people; June 20, 1967, Tan Ly tunnel (at Vinh Quang) collapsed, causing 61 deaths; July 27, 1967, the tunnel Hamlet Booc (in Vinh Thach) collapsed, there were 22 deaths, tunnels Binh Minh (Vinh Hien in) collapsed September 10, 1967 that killed 39 people ...
After completely unified country, the Ministry of Culture - Information has decided to recognize the Vinh Moc tunnels are national monuments and monuments included in the list is especially important. And since then, this monument has always been the Party, the Government and the industry functions very interested to invest in embellishing to preserve this precious heritage. Currently, Vinh Moc tunnels are tourist attractions, the largest of all the famous tourist route and unique, DMZ tour.
Vinh Moc Tunnels village - a legend in the anti-US, national salvation - has become a traditional place of patriotic education alive for the younger generations, as interesting tourist attractions, attractive and unique for visitors trousers. There are a foreign visitor wrote: "Vinh Moc Tunnels as an ancient castle lies dormant in the ground, hidden bags of bizarre things people do it and time in which it was born."
In the 1960s, the government of South Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem did not respect the Geneva Agreement, 1954 and not to conduct elections as scheduled. Together with the attack on the rebel movement in the south, the US has tried to provoke, a war against Vietnam forces protect democratic republic in Vinh Linh frontiers. In 1965, the US has created the Gulf of Tonkin incident to start a war to destroy the North by air power, which is the target of Vinh Linh leading raiding.
During the years 1965 - 1972, Vinh Linh continually raiding totaling more than half a million tons of bombs of all kinds. On average, every citizen Vinh Linh has suffered 7 tons of US bombs.
Tunnels first appeared in Vietnam since 1947 at the Phu Tho Hoa (now in Tan Binh - Ho Chi Minh City). Then, the years 1961 - 1965, has appeared in Cu Chi tunnel system spread across 5 communes. In late 1963, Mr. Tran Nam Trung from the Central Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam in South Vietnam on the way to the North visited the combat area in Vinh Giang (Vinh Linh). After observing the terrain, geology here, he suggests should dig tunnels of Vinh Linh as in Cu Chi. With the motto: "One foot does not go, do not leave an inch. Each village is a fortress". Through the directives of Vinh Linh district commissioner, the head of the armed police Le Xuan Vy 140 people were unit commanders and local people quickly dig tunnels. The work was started from scratch in 1965 and was completed on 18.02.1966. Especially as this works commanders (engineer) at the time of his education has only completed primary. (Currently, he is a former lieutenant colonel in the city is sheltered Dong Ha and blinded by wounds affected by the war) .For that, if it comes to justice, the work must have his name attached to new .
To ensure that hundreds of people dining, accommodation, living safe, convenient, both sides of the tunnel they built a lot of apartments, each apartment is enough room for three to four people. Inside the tunnel has three wells, a hall (with a capacity of 50 people), clinics, maternity homes, surgical station, Hoang Cam stove, rice warehouse, station phone book ...
The two sides separated by the main road from three to five meters deep recess carved into the basement into a small, used as living space of a home. Tunnels are composed of three floors. Deep ground floor from 12 to 15 m, is inhabited by people.
Depth 18 m second floor is where headquarters of the Party Committee, People's Committee and Military Command. 22 m deep third floor used for storage logistics supply and service Con Co island's combat troops Vinh Moc population.
According to statistics, there were 18,000 days of training were mobilized to Vinh Moc tunnels in two years. Tunnels are dug in basaltic lands since 1965 and completed two years later, in 1967 with a total length of over 2,000 m main shaft. Just 4 m with 1 family apartment, 0.8 m wide, 1.8 m deep, for 4 people in. The atmosphere makes clay inside tunnels increasingly more rigid so it remains almost originality until today. Tunnel system consists of 3 floors: the first floor is 12 m deep, used to live, the second floor of 15 m above the ground, is used as the storage of food and weapons or meeting and final layer depth 23 m, is used to avoid the bombs. Even the deepest level, is still higher than 23 m sea level to 3 meters, so people living in the tunnels still occur normally during the rainy season. Complete Vinh Moc tunnel system has 13 vents out, including seven sea vents, six doors up the hill, each hatch is regarded as a vent. At the cellar door has installed anti-collapse and permanent wood-reinforced to prevent collapse. Tunnels residents rarely go out. They just needed time spent outside, while not dangerous.
Life under low light tunnels, humid in winter, hot in summer, no sanitation, virtually ensuring a majority of the tunnels are parasites, silver skin and bone disease . Life underground is not suitable for human beings, always light. Therefore, most villages are saving tunnel lighted materials such as oil, grease, only when necessary, such as meetings, emergency patients, newborn care ... new lights use. Also, the lack of food, food and basic necessities as well as the biggest problem for the tunnel dwellers.
Normal life has existed for years in the ground with the full concept of life like education, recreation, entertainment, love, baby ... in a space approximately 1.8 m of road tunnel.
To maintain the breed, to have descendants, the family, the clan, the Vinh Moc tunnels residents have lived divided many different tunnels. While living in the tunnels at Vinh Linh in general, has had 60 children are born, the Vinh Moc Tunnels separately had 17 babies born inside the tunnels. Earth is the place of religion in people's fierce war years, while the largest has about 1,200 people live. For nearly 2,000 days and nights exist, inside tunnels no one was injured and there were 17 babies born, fully articulate the value and significance of the Vinh Moc tunnels, while the outstanding volume of pieces land and its people. There are cellar was created to make delivery room, raising children. Although life inside the tunnels is tough, but many generations of children continue to be born.
Experiences in the real wars, Vinh Moc tunnel system difficult to meet the requirement of residence, live, fight safely for people demarcation zone, even caused a few losses lives. Typically the event on February 26, 1967, the tunnel Don Due (Vinh Hoa) US bombs crashed, killing 4 people; June 20, 1967, Tan Ly tunnel (at Vinh Quang) collapsed, causing 61 deaths; July 27, 1967, the tunnel Hamlet Booc (in Vinh Thach) collapsed, there were 22 deaths, tunnels Binh Minh (Vinh Hien in) collapsed September 10, 1967 that killed 39 people ...
After completely unified country, the Ministry of Culture - Information has decided to recognize the Vinh Moc tunnels are national monuments and monuments included in the list is especially important. And since then, this monument has always been the Party, the Government and the industry functions very interested to invest in embellishing to preserve this precious heritage. Currently, Vinh Moc tunnels are tourist attractions, the largest of all the famous tourist route and unique, DMZ tour.
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