Taken from On the Ho Chi Minh Trail by Susan R. Dixon (reviewer):
On The Ho Chi Minh Trail: The Blood Road, The Women Who Defended It, The Legacy
by Sherry Buchanan
(Asia Ink, 2021)
Between 1965 and 1975 the United States dropped some 7.5 million tons of bombs on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, more than double the weight of bombs dropped on Europe and Asia during the entire Second World War. While there were multiple and changing objectives to the bombing, a major one was the disruption of the flow of men and materiel to the south. Consequently, much of that fury was directed at what the Vietnamese called the Trường Sơn Road and the United States named the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The Trường Sơn Road /Ho Chi Minh Trail threaded through the Trường Sơn Mountains, known in the West as the Annamite Range, that runs roughly north-south through almost the entire length of Vietnam.... Read More
