Tunnel Rats in Vietnam: From the Archive
Warriors In Their Own Words | First Person War Stories
Robert Kirk
4.7 • 701 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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| 0:51.3 | Arguably, the biggest advantage the North Vietnamese Army had over the Allied forces was the element of surprise. |
| 0:57.0 | Masters of the sneak attack, the Vietnamese crept through miles of tunnels that they had dug underneath the field of battle. |
| 1:05.0 | To combat this subterranean enemy, U.S. soldiers armed with nothing more than a 45-caliber |
| 1:11.9 | automatic pistol and a flashlight voluntarily dropped into the tunnels and crawled through |
| 1:17.4 | pitch-black passageways in search of their elusive foe. This unheralded group of American |
| 1:22.9 | soldiers, the so-called tunnel rats, infiltrated the underground web of the Viet Cong. |
| 1:35.7 | C.W. Bowman went to Vietnam as an infantryman with the 25th Division in January |
| 1:40.4 | 1967. We heard about tunnels, and that was mostly from the old-timers that were already there. |
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