Cu Chi Tunnels lie 75 km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
During the Vietnam war, the tunnels stretched 250 kilometers from Saigon to the Cambodian border.
The Cu Chi Tunnels were first started in the 1940s.
They Cu Chi Tunnels were expanded over the next 25 years.
The Tunnels were like an underground city with living areas, kitchens, storage, hospitals, command centers, etc.
People living in the tunnels got married, gave birth and went to school.
Most people lived in the Cu Chi Tunnels to avoid being killed by the Americans.
The U.S. bombs the Cu Chi Tunnels, also used napalm, gas, poison and other deadly weapons of mass destruction.
The Americans also killed families living near the Cu Chi tunnels.
The Americans sent in a soldier called a "tunnel rat."
The Vietnamese in the Cu Chi tunnels would remove boards placed on the floor of the tunnel near the entrance.
When the "tunnel rat" reached the place where the board was removed, he found himself falling to his death into a pit with long, steel spikes.
The Tunnels of Cu Chi
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