For the Vietnam War tunnel rats, these missions formed part of their day-to-day lives.

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 ...

More than 50 years ago, the Vietnam war included a gruesome struggle ... such systems can cover kilometres of tunnels. “The largest VC tunnel system by far was in Ben Cat and Phu Hoa districts ...