In GI jargon they were named by what the maps said at the time (no GPS in those days, just a good old fashioned map and compass). Or by what GI's had heard them called, e.g. "Black Virgin Mountain", "Hobo Woods", "Iron Triangle", "Ia Drang", "A Shau", "Duey Ba Din", "Dak To", "Mang Yang (pass)", etc.
The enemy was hard to find in the jungles of South Vietnam. The answer is jungles.
Both A and B Agent Orange Napalm
The Vietnam was was never a declared war, but 58,000 men died there in 10 years. Every night on TV the war was filmed and put on the news. This changed how people viewed the war and they began to protest the war. We saw men died in the jungles of Vietnam and it was felt that the government needed to leave or declare a war.
At first they had no solution, but then developed napalm and the Daisycutter. Napalm burned away the jungles, along with anyone unfortunate enough to be there. The Daisycutter was a large bomb with an extended pole on which the detonator was mounted. The bomb exploded about 4 feet off the ground and removed all of the surrounding jungle by explosion.
This was the 20th century; in which the Air Force did Air Force jobs, the Navy did Navy jobs, and the Marines & Army did Marine/Army work. TODAY; each branch of service has their own "bells and whistles department." In Vietnam, with the exception of some very specialized and/or covert operations (or even secret experiments) the USAF fought in the skies over North & South Vietnam (and Cambodia and Laos); unless of course their pilots and aircrewmen were shot down...THEN THEY FOUGHT IN THE JUNGLE.
The enemy was hard to find in the jungles of South Vietnam. The answer is jungles.
Much of the training to prepare troops for the conditions of the Vietnam jungles was done there.
The defoliant Agent Orange .
Vietnam wasn't affected; SOUTH Vietnam was affected. NORTH Vietnam may not have been sprayed, but parts of the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Cambodia/Laos may have caught some of it. SOUTH Vietnam is where the vegetation was...that's were the enemy was hiding...that's where the forests and jungles had to be destroyed...to uncover the enemy...and keep him from remaining hidden. If the enemy was hiding and using forests and jungles in NORTH Vietnam...the US simply bombed the heck out of those areas. The place looked like the moon (all bomb craters!).
The main part of the Vietnam war war was fought in the jungles.
Napalm .
Yellow is for the welcome home they never got Green is for the jungles of vietnam Red is for the blood shed of their brothers and sisters
the weed killer was called 2,4-D or agent orange.
The Americans didn't lose. They were unfamiliar with the territory of Vietnam and were not properly prepared. The terrains of the jungles were nothing like the landscape in the US. It was just a matter of unfamiliarity.
The Vietnam war originally began as a "guerrilla war" this meant a great deal of fighting in the jungles between the North and the South. It eventually turned into a war in the air but this was much later.
With its wild jungles, fantastic street food and white sandy beaches, Vietnam deserves to be on every traveller's hitlist. From Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City, there are a number of sights and sounds that draw the crowds.
What are the names of some jungles in China?