Original version

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

Witness History

Podcasts

Factual: Life Stories

Factual: History

History as told by the people who were there

History as told by the people who were there.

BBC World Service

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

BBC World Service East Asia

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

Witness History: Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels

Magazines & Reviews

News

cu chi cropped.jpg

03/01/2017 GMT

Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels

BBC World Service - Witness History, Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels

A Vietnamese war veteran on life in the Viet Cong's tunnel network in South Vietnam

A Vietnamese war veteran on life in the Viet Cong's underground tunnel network

Vietnamese veteran, Le Van Lang, remembers the war in the Viet Cong's underground tunnel network in South Vietnam. A resident of Cu Chi district, 20 km north of  Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City) he helped construct the tunnels and joined the insurgency against the South Vietnamese government and their American allies. The vast tunnel network became a key base and shelter for Viet Cong guerrillas and North Vietnamese units during the war,
Photo: A Vietnamese soldier in a preserved section of tunnel in the Cu Chi district, 1979  (BBC)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Witness History

Vietnam War: The Cu Chi Tunnels

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

About BBC World Service