VIETNAM WAR Locations TODAY: Secret CIA Headquarters, Tunnels, Khe Sanh, Bunkers, Ho Chi Minh City
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Jorma and Cathy explore significant locations from the Vietnam War. We find the long lost secret C.I.A. Headquarters building in Ho Chi Minh City from where the famous photo of agents being airlifted off from the roof was taken. Its former address was 22 Gia Long Street, but that has long since changed. Tune in to the video for the new address.
We also visit the DMZ, Khe Sanh Combat Base, Vinh Moc Tunnels, the bunkers below the Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, the War Remnants Museum, and the memorial to the monk Thích Quảng Đức.
Chapters:
00:00 - DMZ
01:02 - Khe Sahn
03:19 - Vinh Moc Tunnels
07:00 - War Remnants Museum
10:10 - Independence Palace
14:43 - CIA Headquarters
18:53 - Memorial to Thích Quảng Đức
DMZ: The Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone was established as a dividing line between North and South Vietnam from July 1954 to 1976 as a result of the First Indochina War. During the Vietnam War (1955-1975), it became important as the battleground demarcation separating North from South Vietnamese territories. The zone ceased to exist with the reunification of Vietnam on July 2, 1976.
Khe Sanh Combat Base: A US Marine Corps outpost south of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) used during the Vietnam War. Fighting began at Khe Sanh in late April 1967 with the hill fights, which later expanded into the 1968 Battle of Khe Sanh.
Vinh Moc Tunnels: A complex tunnel system in Quảng Trị. During the Vietnam War, it was strategically located on the border of North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The tunnels were built to shelter people from the intense bombing of Son Trung and Son Ha communes in the Vietnamese DMZ. Families stayed there for 5 years, and as many as 17 babies were born in the tunnels during that time.
Independence Palace: The palace was the home and workplace of the President of the Republic of (South) Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). It was the site of the Fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 that ended the Vietnam War, when a North Vietnamese Army tank crashed through its gates.
The War Remnants Museum contains exhibits relating to the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War including equipment left behind by the US military.
CIA Headquarters: A secret location in downtown Ho Chi Minh City where agents and the South Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and his family were airlifted away by a Huey helicopter during the fall of Saigon on April 29, 1975. The former address was 22 Gia Long Street, but has since been changed. Watch this video for the new address.
Memorial to Thích Quảng Đức (1897 - June 11, 1963; born Lâm Văn Túc): He was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on June 11, 1963. His ability to fall into and remain in deep meditation allowed him to utter not one cry as his body burned. His self-immolation was an act of protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government led by Ngô Đình Diệm, a staunch Roman Catholic. Photographs of his self-immolation circulated around the world, drawing attention to the policies of the Diệm government. His last words as written in a letter:
"Before closing my eyes and moving towards the vision of the Buddha, I respectfully plead to President Ngô Đình Diệm to take a mind of compassion towards the people of the nation and implement religious equality to maintain the strength of the homeland eternally. I call the venerables, reverends, members of the sangha and the lay Buddhists to organize in solidarity to make sacrifices to protect Buddhism."
Nice video, man. I was there in 2019 and went to a lot of the same places. Some crazy history there
Thanks for watching. Yeah, I was in awe seeing some of these places in person after reading so much about them over the years. There’s still so much to see. I’ll go back for sure
Very cool Jorma.
Thanks
So cool!
Thanks
So much history!
Yeah it was an amazing trip
Always enjoy your videos of you taking me where I’ve never been!
Thanks Teach
Awesome locations friend !
Thanks for checking it out
Hopefully I can Check this out one day!
Vietnam is wild
The buildings and trenches at Khe Sanh are not original. They have been built recently by VN as illustration of what base that was long ago stripped and demolished may of looked like. Also aircraft at Khe Sanh are not US, but South Vietnamese aircraft captured at the end of war in 1975 and repainted in US markings (to even acknowledge South Vietnam ever existed is a taboo in modern Vietnam). Same as aircraft, helicopters and tanks at HCMC museum, all RVN equipment (South Vietnamese) captured at end of war and repainted in US markings to tell a story that communist Vietnam likes to portray.
That’s interesting thanks