The Ho Chi Minh Trail, also called Annamite Range Trail was a logistical network of roads and trails that ran from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the kingdoms of Laos and Cambodia. The system
In the early days of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, bicycles were often used to transport arms and equipment from North to South Vietnam.
Bicycle used by communist forces on the Ho Chi Minh Trail to transport supplies. National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.
Barrel Roll • Steel Tiger • Tiger Hound areas of operations
PAVN troops on the trail (photo taken by a U.S. MACV-SOG team)
Hồ Chí Minh, colloquially known as Uncle Ho among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese communist revolutionary and statesman who founded the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945. He served
Ho Chi Minh trail
…that the Sihanouk Trail which ran through Cambodia was handling significantly more material. It was named by the U.S. after the North Vietnamese leader Hồ Chí Minh. The origin of the name is presumed to have come from the First Indochina War, when there was a Viet Minh maritime logistics line called the "Route of…
Commemorative plaque in Haymarket in London
1920 security report by the French Indochinese government on Nguyễn Tất Thành listing his aliases, places of residence, his father's occupation, as well as other information.
Hồ Chí Minh, 1921, using the pseudonym Nguyễn Ái Quốc, attending a Communist congress in Marseille, France.