Soldiers who called themselves 'tunnel rats' fought an underground war in Vietnam through an intricate maze of hardened ...

The Vietnamese began digging the tunnels in the late 1940s during Vietnam's war of independence from France. At that time, the area of Cu Chi was originally inhabited by farmers. As the rebellion ...

Egypt used the tactic in 2015 to destroy tunnels used for smuggling on its border. More than 50 years ago, the Vietnam war included a gruesome struggle by the US and allies against tunnel ...

during the Vietnam War, such as the use of helicopters and napalm in "Apocalypse Now" (1979), starring Marlon Brando; and the use of tunnels and firepower in "We Were Soldiers" (2002), starring ...

The USA would ultimately drop three million tonnes of bombs in Vietnam - more than all the bombs dropped in Europe during World War Two ... any particular location. Tunnels existed for them ...