These tunnels served as living quarters, hospitals, supply routes, and command centers for the Viet Cong (VC). The tunnels also allowed them to launch surprise attacks and vanish without a trace.

The Apple TV+ docuseries doesn't feature pundits or historians as talking heads, focusing instead on the people on the ground ...

The Cu Chi Tunnels of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, are now a hot tourist destination. Built by the communist Viet Cong in the 1940s, these tunnels were used for a variety of reasons. They housed ...

The Viet Cong dug elaborate tunnel complexes to use as safe bases, conducted hit-and-run attacks on Americans, and tried to avoid large-scale battles. The GIs usually moved slowly, calling in ...

Having already uncovered and blasted more than 500 Viet Cong tunnels in the Iron Triangle, U.S. soldiers last week snared the biggest nest of all: a vast underground city in Ho Bo woods on the ...

During the Vietnam War the U.S. Army brass decides to create a special unit called the Tunnel Rats. Their main mission is to clean-up the Viet-Cong network of tunnels found in the Cu-Chi district ...

C.W. Bowman and Gary Heeter were “tunnel rats” — men tasked with entering and clearing the underground network of passageways and bunkers utilized by the Viet Cong. Theirs was one of the most ...

The Vietnamese Communists, or Vietcong, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam, which was located near the ...

A lot of that footage is used in this docuseries, as well as footage of Viet Cong soldiers and operatives ... who became part of a unit called “The Tunnel Rats” for volunteering to explore ...

C.W. Bowman was a “tunnel rat” sent as point man into the Viet Cong’s network of tunnels. When his best friend, Gary Heeter, gets his legs blown up, Bowman says that he felt “nothing ...