Most Insane Booby Traps Used During the Vietnam War
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 มี.ค. 2022
- The Vietnam War was a brutal battle that had both sides resorting to insane military tactics for an advantage in the fighting. One deadly tactic used by the Viet Cong was hiding booby traps that when sprung could trigger a life-ending trap!
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Man you have to give the Vietnamese people some credit think about the time and effort it took to come up with these traps.
yeah and think of how poor Vietnam was back then, it's been dictated for thousands of years already. The only thing the vietnamese got for them was their high and conservative jungles and they used just that to fought THE USA, a massively huge country with modern weapons and hundreds upon thousands of soldiers. Gotta give them some credit
The traps and the tunnel system they used blew me away...
Hahahahah!😂
And this was before Home Alone came out.
@@jaycho6747 looooooooool
My father was an Aussie Vietnam Veteran and was about a week from rotating out. On his last patrol a guy who had been in country for less than a week stepped on a toe popper and lost most of his left foot. Dad always said he would rather be in a firefight than deal with Vietnamese man traps.
Strange thing...The Australian soldiers fighting in the Vietnam War has been largely overlooked in the movies and also the French soilders,etc.
@@thedragonlee76 I mean many things has been overlooked like the hill 192 or My Lai event but sadly many women and children that were hiding suffered by soldiers gang up on them and it happened on a really large scale. American movies and literature censor a lot of what they did. But picture themselves as heroes.
@@KFC431 and during the Vietnam War, the US thoroughly bombed Laos, a small poor country, with about 2.8 million tons of bombs (more than all the bombs dropped during WW2 combined). It was so secretive, and aptly called the Secret War.
@@Liboch woah that's sad. Why did they do it tho?
@@thedragonlee76 Funny fact: 80% of Australian soldier casualties in Vietnam war was due to their own landmines because the VC/NVA dug up all the Australian landmines and burry them again near Australian military bases.
- Vietnam fought China for 1000 years
- Vietnam fought against the French for 100 years
- Vietnam fought against the US imperialists for 30 years
Traps are also only a small part, the more important thing is creative tactics and Vietnam has accumulated experience in each battle. Moreover, Vietnamese people fight for their homeland and country, so the fighting spirit is very strong.
congrats to them towards china.
Don't forget the japanese imperialists in WW2.
VN seems unable to fight poverty, human trafficking and littering.
@@fastkillmmmmexcuse me , Vietnamese here , you forgot one thing . EMBEZZLEMENT
Vietnam fought the Mongols too
There was a book written by a Vietnamese general during the middle ages when China attempted to invade and conquer them. They used similar traps then and even sank a large portion of the imperial Chinese navy using hidden bamboo spikes on a beach where the ships attempted to land. The book describes how to make these traps and how best to use them. It was still in circulation when the war was going on.
The remains of this pile yard are still in Hai Phong
ngô quyền 938
Yeah most of these traps are stone age in origin and even the older ones like the explosive rigged flags were employed by the Ming.
What was the book called?
pretty sure that it was a mongol fleet
"War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Very profound!🎯✌
Well said
U.S. army: We prepare for any possible contingency
Viet Cong: *Hold my bamboo*
those US guy are bamboozled
@@universalartifaxite Lol
@@universalartifaxite i feel bad for laughing at this
@@sashankzegreat5203 lol
@@sashankzegreat5203 maybe you would less feel bad if you learn the fate of many vietnamese women and girls. Things like Hill 192 or My Lai event were quite common on large scale... sadly censored by media.
I'm a Vietnamese citizen. I proud of ours solidarity and the tenacity that my forefathers did. I cherish and love peace. Because I understand that in order to have peace and prosperity like today, I am standing on so many bones and blood that the war has ravaged my homeland. So don't let war happen on this Earth no matter what. Thanks ❤
Vietnamese warriors have shown a lot of strength and cunning. The traps are just the surface of it, I invite everyone to read about the evasive tactics that were used during the French invasion, as well as the Viet Kong strategy of staying out of the Air Force radius all the time.
Besides, the morale was very high and people understood that they fight for the right cause.
Cunning
They hid in the shade of civilians, that is not strength or cunning
They not hide in the shade of civilians,most of the viet cong soldier would only stay at a village for resting and left right after morning
@@russellm2555 killing civilians is also not a proper way to show ‘strength’, yet US citizens rarely complain when their army done it on middle east 😂
@@russellm2555 It's war. The invading party obviously had more advance weapons but they got outsmarted by the Vietcong.
My grandpa actually fought in and survived this war! He was a marine! He has a few battle scars on his torso! He may have survived the war, but he lost a lot of friends during it.
Semper Fi!!
@@jakeg3126 Thank you.
Rip
totally deserved
CCR-Fortunate Son
Huge props for Vietnam, they repelled several invasions. They truly are a powerful nation thanks to it's resilient people.
You’re making them sound good. They made so much suffering to win that war and used fear to repel their enemy. (I’m not saying they were not resourceful btw im saying they should not be acted like they were good people just cuz they won.)
@@ajtheflame9180 Reminder that the Vietnamese were simply defending their country after repeated denials of help from the USA. Americans also committed many war crimes and used chemical warfare that left generations deformed.
@@ajtheflame9180 american aint good either lol
@@ajtheflame9180 USA never the good side anyway. They support many civil wars, invade countries for the sake of resources and power. They manipulate the media to make them look like the good guy.
@@ajtheflame9180 While that may be true, they were doing it as a reaction. If the US hadn't invaded, they wouldn't have had to make these traps. Not only that, but the untold suffering of millions of innocent people as a result of bombings could've also been avoided.
I met an old north Vietnamese woman who told me about her time in the nva. Those people were so clever and resourceful. She taught me that the detonators 8n frag grenades are different from the ones in smoke grenades. One has a delay and the other is instantaneous. If you swap detonators, you can make a frag that detonates instantly, no delay. perfect for traps and tunnels.
I’ve seen. Guy dump boiling Carmel on a Vietnamese woman’s face.
Vietnam is currently one of the countries most heavily contaminated with landmines and mines in the world. Particularly the number of bombs, the US military used in the Vietnam War about 15.35 million tons.. My country is proud to have repelled the imperialists who invaded us. From Vietnam
@@relaxingmusic3130 we deeply congratulate for kicking the inperialists out from country
Our enemies were the same.
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤️🇻🇳
My Uncle went to Nam at age 17. He came Home 3 years later in a Coma, with Malaria. Fortunately, he Survived, and Spends most of his time Helping Folks in Need. He is my Hero!
as a Vietnamese, good for you and him too
Darn that's so young, did he go to serve in the war?
@@akshayraj702 if you had some reading comprehension skills then answer is obviously yes.
"My Uncle went to Nam (Vietnam) at the she of 17. He came home 3 years later in a coma, with Malaria."
^ like dude, there is so much information here.
@@dr.peashooter7078 hi Vietnamese guy
@@dr.peashooter7078 Thank you.
Vietnamese have my respect. Survival experts. Even in cities like Hanoi and Saigon, people can make a business out of selling a piece of string. Immensly dedicated and hard working and brilliant enterprise and entrepreneurship skills!!
They certainly don't have mine. The Vietcong brought horrible suffering an death wherever they went, and they helped to spread Chinese influence and communism.
@@thewarden1398 Can you elaborate? What do you mean by where ever they went? I have not heard of any world event where Vietnamese had invaded another country.
@@phoneix24886 Just watch the beginning. These traps are disgusting. Not only would they get wounded, but they would try and guarantee infection. They didn't care if the soldiers had a family, it seemed like they wanted maximum suffering per victim, not to mention most weren't fast deaths, they were slow and painful. Disgusting and dishonorable.
@@thewarden1398 Its a matter of opinion, usa army used chemical war and nuclear weapons, destroyed countries and cultures everywere, it is a matter of opinión.
@@NooNoo-qj5nm then maybe don’t go there :) Besides what is honorable in a large 1st world country attacking a small third world country. War is war, you do what you have to to win, especially if it’s your home
I lived with my grandparents when I was young. My grandfather was a Vietnam Army Veteran and I remember waking up most nights to hearing him screaming. After seeing this, it's scary to imagine what he saw or even went through
My Dad was over there. The thing I remember him telling me about the most is that they would apply fecies and urine to the sharpened sticks to cause infection in the man who was wounded. That really made it's way into my little mind.
See Dad everyday and help him with his medical regiment. A few days ago he was watching a program about NAM war when I visited, which is odd and rare because he usually turns the channel or turns the tv off when that stuff comes on.
I think I have witnessed a 4 decade healing of sorts, the level of pain and rage and uncontrolled emotion has been tempered over time, but I could feel a nervous, taught energy in the room as he watched that program about the war.
Like the air was charged.
maybe just maybe your old man uses his experience as a veteran in vietnam to excuse his anger problems?
Wouldnt be the first time. Like the myth of vietnam veterans being spat on when they came back to the US. Yep that never occurred.
You should hit him up with these traps on April’s fools day. Put a viper in his cereal box. Rig his fridge with a bomb with urine and feces and shrapnel permantely blinding him.he wouldn’t suspect. Only the vc.
@@titaniusanglesmith9690 Yes it did. Vietnam vets were told to off themselves and were disrespected to levels you can't imagine
@@pingpong3311it's not really disrespectful when they were guilty of shooting innocent people and children is it? No honor in being a veteran unless you were fighting on home soil.
@@pingpong3311 good.
My dad served in the Marine Corps and fought in Vietnam. He passed away last year, I sure do miss his war stories.
I'm hoping he's doing okay.
@@prentos477 he passed away last year and thanks for the kind words.
Rip bro
Your dad is resting now he's watching your "stories"
@@Insanitydesigns appreciate that 💯
Trên danh nghĩa một người công dân việt nam. Đó hoàn toàn là sự tự vệ của cha ông tôi, tôi tự hào vì điều đó
The Viets are expert in their craft, when it comes to ambushing and guerilla warfare in general. Besides history lessons about them, a game called Age of Empires II while playing as the Vietnamese, gave me the idea their military defenses explains a lot
Which Age of Empires II??
Age of Kings or Conquerors Expansion??
@@ruturajshiralkar5566 Rise of Rajas. It's all about SEA empires
Rise of Roma. Vietnam is top 1.
7554 is also a very good game about the Vietnam war
No wonder my father never spoke about his experience from this war. I wasn't born yet but my mom told us when he got back home, he threw away all his Army gear. She went in the trash and saved his army coat which I have today. The only other story she told us was about an explosion near his mess hall that killed 2 of his friends. I thank God he made it back home with no injuries other than getting malaria. Maybe he will talk about it now but I'm so mad that these governments send our young men to fight these useless wars over nothing!!!
Often veterans dont talk about their war experiences because theyre not like the movies. Typically there are so many troops in any given war zone that only so many combat experiences can be spread to the whole bunch therefore limited stories. Even today only 3% of the US military is combat oriented.
your government and weapon industry owner want money (oils, use backlog weapon in ww2 and make vietnam to a backyard for money) Never nothing
My father also fought in nam. The stories he told my brother and I were vicious. This video supports those stories. Thank God he made it back home. He passed away 7 years ago. True soldier
The video had it wrong, what was referred as the two step snakes was the tiapan vipers confirmed by veterans after the war working along with scientists in the herpetology field. But scary non the less as the venom is confirmed one of the worst land snakes anywhere. Many war vets still had PTSD of these snakes after the war. My uncle's were a few of these men.
Theres no difference between him and a russian soldier of today
@@frankmatthews5491 you mean besides the fact we bring freedom and democracy for all people to enjoy freedom in their home lands?
Compared to a communist regime that needs you to live a certain way, so that their fancy government can survive??
Wow you got a lot to learn. You seem to still be on a 3rd grade level. Work on that.
@@frankmatthews5491 American soldiers are the worst the vietnamese soldiers fought to defend their land
@@frankmatthews5491 funny you say that because the Vietcong were actually supported by the USSR...I dunno man
That sounds like a truly hellish war..
What about trench warfare?
"It is good that war is so horrific, otherwise we might grow too fond of it"
Robert E Lee
@@aymericdeascalon4590 oh thanks I couldn't remember who said that
That kinda scared me ngl but yeah it is true
It's called defending you homeland from invaders
Humanity always finds a way to amaze, be it through delight or dismay. Your channel is amazing! Stay Legendary, The Infographics Show!
always find way to be cruel in more imaginative way ! need more slaughterhouses
No disrespect but half of their videos are fake and made up
@@jayghee9396 Can you list the false information in this video so everyone can know, Legendary Jay Ghee?
This is what one gets when he invades others land
@@akshaymedhane7877 dude it wasn’t the soldiers fault
Long live Vietnam.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 love from Serbia
Chào người anh em
I'm vietnamese! Vietnamese people like peace , like freedom , we don't like war ! But ! If we have to do it ,we wil never give up !
They also made mines against helicopters. A crude four blade propeller made in... bambu, of course, was set in a probable landing zone and attached to a hand grenade ring by a wire. When approaching the ground to land, the downwash of the helicopter main rotor would spin the bambu propeller connected to the grenade, and after a few turns the propeller shaft would spool up the attached wire, pulling the ring and detonating the grenade, hitting the helicopter underside where in a UH-1 the fuel tank was located. I must agree that's quite imaginative indeed!
Yeah ,that when you were swinging the helicopter down, the mine exploded.....booommmmm...
@@thangvutri7107 ah, I bet you did a few yourself! 😀
Bamboo*
Vietnam is currently one of the countries most heavily contaminated with landmines and mines in the world. Particularly the number of bombs, the US military used in the Vietnam War about 15.35 million tons.. My country is proud to have repelled the imperialists who invaded us. From Vietnam
@@relaxingmusic3130 good
Could you imagine walking around a live "battlefield" with a metal detector? The shell cartridges alone would set the thing off and the enemy could always seed the path with bits of metal to slow you down.
Silly kid, i think they make mine seeking drones with sonar for that. Send it ahead of troop and report back traps. Or if they don't they could, at least that's what I would do.
@@janeprescott7381 bruh hes not talking about modern times. He was talking about past times.
@@janeprescott7381 Mine seeking drones in 1955 ??? In your dreams only.
Of course it's the model airplane decade. Pardon me.
not to mention a lot of the traps can be made with natural material like woods and vines. they make sure you will never feel safe even with massive advantage of technology.
Well…roaming around a Vietnam jungle is certainly off my bucket list
Didn't expect our traps to be that deadly, great video btw
Coward warfare
Only them would used children and women
Восхищен мужеством вьетнамского народа. Привет из Советского Союза.
@@user-cr5tr8zt8e thanks
@@user-cr5tr8zt8e 😂
that definitely taught them a lesson😂😂👏 this was great!
My respect to all vietnamese, i visit there once, tour guide show us vietnamese tunnel during the war, just by watching the tunnel, i can sense, it's totally dedication of vietnamese to win the war, full respect 🇻🇳
95% american cant get in our tunnel. 😊
Props to Vietnam to even come out with these ideas
We had been fighting invasion since BC bro 🤣 Chinese , Mongolian , French , British , American , Cambodian
"You sir can come to the moon and go back , i'm not sure about that if you sir come to Vietnam" -Madame Binh😎
imagine opening a bag only to be attacked by one of these snakes
Lol
The video had it wrong, what was referred as the two step snakes was the tiapan vipers confirmed by veterans after the war working along with scientists in the herpetology field. But scary non the less as the venom is confirmed one of the worst land snakes anywhere. Many war vets still had PTSD of these snakes after the war. My uncle's were a few of these men.
@@supportyourtroopsathletes6460 what bro the inland taipan is one of the most venomous snakes on the planet
I guess the Vietnam war was like home alone
Most of the explosives we dig out of the ground in my hometown are bombs, not grenades or mines. Some times in HCMC we even found a huge bombs under the ground when we build a houses, fixing underground's pipes, roads, etc...
13:17
Cientist:"its almost imposible to travel at light speed even in the vacum of space"
Vietnam:"HAHAHAHA MY BAMBOO DO BETTER"
if it works, it works lol
ah yes, cientist
@Prasanth Thomas aight aight imma edit it
@Prasanth Thomas i kept the C tho
We can argue all day about who was right and who was wrong. In the end, you have to remind yourself. It's not the common GI that starts and ends wars. It's the politicians in the government.
If the men with suits and ties had to fight the wars they start, there would be no more wars.
As a Vietnamese, I'm proud of my ancestors, the effort, determination and how much they love the country and never give up even when they're horribly tortured really made me respect them.
I'm proud of the fighting, the bones and blood sacrificed by my ancestors to give us peace. I love peace. Many people lost their lives protecting their homeland, while the attacking ones also pass away. So why start a war in the beginning? I know there are many reasons leading to a war but this war is kinda pointless. No one benefit. So please keep this world peaceful and don't let wars happen.
Vietnam has fought against China after 1000 years of invasion, fought agains the French army, the US invaders and then the Chinese invaders after Americans left. We fought to protect our homeland, not cause war. So why not just live in peace? That way, thousands of soldiers wouldn't have died!
P/S: Didn't know our traps could be so deadly and dangerous...
I agreed with you
You’re celebrating the death of soldiers who were drafted through no choice of their own
The government are the ones who chose to invade and they don’t die or suffer any consequences
USA during cold war:- i am superpower I have advance weapon's
Vietnam:- i have forest
Vietnamese at that time were fighters they have my respect
The people in the military came from a poor background, mostly farmers, or get sent to do hard labour for the French or the US. They never got proper training. I am surprised of how they pulled it together to current day. They were called: "Quân Đội Nhân Dân Việt Nam", which means the army were from the farmers, I mean people, ain't any specialised personnels whose got training for thousands of dollars. Thank you for the people that fell down to make Vietnam an independent country like today.
My Grandpa was an Airborne Ranger in the Vietnam War. He fought on Hamburger Hill/Hill 937
Greetings from vietnam
the og gangsters 🤙🏻 hope he’s enjoying life now
@@nathan-ls8yw He is and Thank you
@@apollomii np🤙🏻
@Biko Thank you and he is
"U.S. dropped 6,062,000 tons bomb in that region between 1964-73..." - We Asians didn't forget what France & then US did to Vietnam.... Proud for the Bravery & intelligence shown... Will always be a proud example in History that how to fight a stronger bully...
P.s :- Sorry for your loss people of USA... I wish only if USA politicians could have learnt from history of minding their own business...
Best way to wipe out aggressor..
Bruh how do they animate every single day it’s crazy how consistent this channel is lol no hate but impressive
yeah its crazy. I think they reuse characters and models. They are also a company. Just note they probably have a lot of preset models
@@chase5015 Yeah, with preset models and some program that puts them to use according to what text is entered you could generate the majority of videos, from there its some adjustments and the voice over itself.
On the low I think they have an animation staff that's why they're able to do this.
Probably some kid in Vietnam is working 24/7 to make these videos.
@@jaycho6747 bruh LOOOL
I was taught many of these traps by the Malaysian Army Comandos during their Combat Tracking course. They haven’t even mentioned the really bad ones in this video.
I'm intrigued.. what others were there???
@@kagekun7689 same
Please tell us
Come on mate dont leave us hanging here... lol
What's the worst? Also where you trained how to avoid them? Thank you
Love from Vietnam 🇻🇳
Due to the pungy sticks, military members began wearing steeltoed boots. The toe poppers were the next evolution as the round would go through the steeltoed boots, this would cause more damage as the steel would deform making the damage worse
@Bernie Gores In what way?
@Bernie Gores To clarify, steel toed boots protect from light falling objects. Anything heavy or with enough force will turn that steel section into a crumpled soda can... with your foot trapped inside it.
Likely the 'toe' folds over and severs all toes. I almost learned the hard way working in industrial shops that had grandfathered safety policies from before OSHA 😒
Things I watch out for walking to the toilet at 3AM
Rip to all those drafted to the Vietnam war, and those who object respect…right side of history. And rip to the Vietnamese protecting their homeland
They are having fun with Satan now.
@Syed Aman majority people in communist country are
non-religious and don't believe must in god.
@Syed Aman Looks like you got brainwashed too deep in America lol. None of what you just said is true in Vietnam, most of the people here don't even care about the government, most of the young Vietnamese don't even know who is the president and the leader of Vietnam.
@Syed Aman spoken like someone who knows nothing about America
@Syed Aman yeah, you definitely know nothing about America
My neighbor was drafted in Vietnam, but he injured his ankle in advanced training and was considered unfit for duty and discharged. He was supposed to be a tunnel rat. Probably saved his life.
Edit: I originally had the story wrong. I talked with him again and have updated my post to show what really happened.
Tunnel Rats had the worst jobs so yeah it would've saved his life
😒that is so lame. Probably faked an injury to avoid being deployed.
@@benlost1404 Nope. He walks with a pronounced limp to this day, and it gives him trouble when the weather changes.
@@owengreig1088
It’s hard to believe considering you get medically discharged and not honorably discharge for injuries in basic training.
@@benlost1404 Well, those aren't his exact words, they're mine. I don't know a whole lot of modern military terms, most of my military knowledge is in weaponry and then mostly Roman/early Middle Ages.
My great uncle Charles (who was my maternal grandmother's brother) fought in the Vietnam war, drafted as so many were. When he came home poor man wasn't the same. We shouldn't have ever gotten involved in that accursed war.
your uncle is a murderer
I am from vietnam
Yes yer right it was awful destroyed countless lives that horrible war so many young healthy lives lost such a waste
@@waynescales7231 but war make money for greedy politicians, bussinesman.
Vietnam numba one! 🇻🇳
Tbh the traps is brutal tho
@@yeet-2322 what to do , gotta win a war against a super power
@@erenyaeger1577 you gotta make do with what you have, vietnam was amazing cuz they won with severely behind equipments
Watchu doing here rom
@@erenyaeger1577 just because you are against a superpower does not mean you can brutally torture the other side
There's another version of the door trap you didn't mention. This one instead of punji sticks it used the two-step viper. The way my grandfather told me is they would either nail or tie the two step to the top of the doorway that way when a US soldier would open it it would hit the snake angering them and they would immediately start trying to bite the US soldier. My grandfather told me about this as he encountered it on two separate occasions while he was in Vietnam. I found that out after I asked him why he was afraid and cautious to walk through his own door one day. Suffice to say I was a little disturbed by the answer but not surprised.
There's 3 more booge trap that they didn't told about was door hole trap, fire oil door trap and the double foot smuch trap
@@ucAnhNguyen-mx7nm I think there were a few typos you made but I got what you meant. But let's be honest if they tried to get every single trap that the VC made this video wouldn't be 20 minutes it would be 2 hours. Well maybe not that long but you know what I mean. And as much as I personally hate the VC for the trauma they cause my grandfather I still have to give credit for the clever ingenuity they used.
@@seanherod9771 yeah im not that good in english :/
@Ray Jets You act like the troops wanted to be there. This wasn’t Normandy. They didn’t want to be in Vietnam. Attack the leadership of the US, not the Soldiers.
@Ray Jets I take it you don't know about the draft?
USA: "We have nuclear weapon".
Vietnam: "We have bamboos".
USA: "We have nuclear weapon".
Vietnam: "We have bamboos and patriotism."
"Creativity can be a weapon."
- some Vietnamese Commanders
😅😅When I think of freedom fighters, the Vietnamese come to mind. Vietnamese people must be very proud of their grandparents while watching this episode
i think this was one of the reason why the US lost to Vietnam. The idea of dying in a pit full of spike in the middle of nowhere, leaving behind your friends and families is really terrible.
The US government lost politically, that’s the only loss. Gen Giáp has said the North was days away from negotiations when Nixon stopped operation Linebacker 1 and 2. They were being bombed into submission. The halt allowed the north to double or triple their AAA defenses. Giáp said he never understood why the US stopped the bombing when victory was at hand.
Very helpful intel. Thanks.
Nice narration..!! Very unfortunate for soldiers of both the sides.. war is never a solution.. Hope ppl country realise before it's too late
My uncle was a veteran of Vietnam and he agreed he saw many deaths by the traps
My dad was an infantry medic in Vietnam. ‘65-‘66.
He’s my hero.
That’s amazing. Thank you for your dad
Was he KIA?
I wish I could meet my grand pa but I have his watch
@@wyattnacey9490 I have an honorary grandpa that served in Vietnam. He's still around but I don't know exactly what he did
Sorry for you guys. USA should never have been there
best video yet guys good work!
I am Vietnamese, Do you know how many innocent Vietnamese people were killed in the war of Vietnam and how much blood was shed to make our country independent and free as it is today?
I think people are just sympathyzing for the ones who fell for the brutal traps, a bullet wouldve saved them the pain. Of course we all know the US attacked Vietnam for no real reason.
Good. Fair play to the Vietnamese for standing their ground.
I’m glad we were on the right side of the war-from Sweden
Im from Việt Nam, thank you
These traps would be a good house defense mechanism Someone comes into your house uninvited Or tries to roam into your things Or take your valuable stuff Use Vietnam traps Just make sure to Put them up before inviting anyone
I hope humans will one day use their creativity to help each other instead of destroying each other
Good job VC💪
Lesson: don't invade Vietnam.
"When you go strolling around another man's country with a gun you better be ready for some action Jack." George Carlin.
My grandpa was an ex South Vietnamese US allied back then and I remember when I was 5, he used to handmade bird trap with nets and clothes hanger. He finally perfected his craft to build a catch and release safely for the birds. He’s like 75-78 right now. We used to grew up in a ghetto neighborhood on Hilltop Tacoma Washington and he’ll hang his trap on the trees in front of his porch at an apartment.
Vietnam is currently one of the countries most heavily contaminated with landmines and mines in the world. Particularly the number of bombs, the US military used in the Vietnam War about 15.35 million tons.. My country is proud to have repelled the imperialists who invaded us. From Vietnam
Veterans are absolute heroes. If I was put in that situation, I wouldn't know what to do....
i know what to do: stay home
Không phải tất cả cựu chiến binh đều là anh hùng, sẽ có một bên là anh hùng còn một bên là tội đồ xâm lược khủng bố😢
Hornet traps were used during the vietnam war,they were trip wire box traps that released a bunch of hornets,and when the troops started running from the hornets,they would fall into near by pungi traps.
If counting from the invasion of the Qin Dynasty in the 3rd century BC to 1975, within 22 centuries, Vietnam had to conduct 15 resistance wars to protect the country and the time against foreign invaders was up to 12 centuries. Vietnam is currently one of the countries most heavily contaminated with landmines and mines in the world. Particularly the number of bombs, the US military used in the Vietnam War about 15.35 million tons.. My country is proud to have repelled the imperialists who invaded us. From Vietnam
the skill required to get hold of those hornets or hornet hives is insane.
Thanks this tutorial was vary helpfull
Vietnamese have my respect. Standing up to and defeating the agressor.
❤
Killing people who had no choice but to be drafted while the real aggressors are safe
Wow how incredible
11:34 it scares me how i thought of something similar to the toe popper as a child, you rig a revolver cylinder to fire all rounds at once, since its just the cylinder and mechanism it can be as small and readily concealed in many areas, its only gonna shoot once so if rigged up in a ceiling or wall np meed to rig it to survive the shot.
Vietnamese instinct
How it feels like to step on a lego at midnight:
Forget metal detectors. What they really needed in that situation was Admiral Ackbar. He knew a trap when he saw one.
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Idk which side was more scarier. On the US side your probably young in a different uncomfortable environment you’ve never been in. You had to watch every tree, every step, and even back packs for traps. On the Viet side Yk your outnumbered and out teched, the US is constantly bombing your home town and one mistake could get you killer by your buddy’s trap
I mean also on vietnamese side: your girls and wife can get kidnapped and killed any time. Events like Hill 192 and My Lai were tryly horrific and happened on a large scale but censored by american media.
@@KFC431 yeah but some things are worse and I know a few
@@LSG_Squadron ik but youtube will delete our comments if we talk about worse things the american soldiers did. Mostly if you mention the word american. (Like I did some test a few months ago by replacing the same comment that got deleted by japanese or philopino instead of american and the comment didn't got deleted. But I did the same test few days ago and the one with american got deleted within 20 seconds of refreshing and the others within 3min.) I guess they are fixing their algorithm. But ngl it was freaking funny but at the same time scary when it didn't got deleted at all.
@@KFC431 Well bad guys deserve it. Even though US didn't win, it doesn't matter. Good guys sometimes can lose. But we know we are the good guys and heroes. God bless our soldiers.
War is terrifying for everyone. That’s all there is to it
Some of the door traps had a second plank with spikes attached with rope at the bottom of the first. That way if someone was fast enough to stop the top plate with their gun, they would still be hit by the free swinging bottom half.
my dad was in the vietnam war. he said when they captured a village they would take 4 vietcong men and stand them shoulder to shoulder put a bamboo stick against their lower back and have them put their arms behind them to hold the stick up ( sometimes tie their hands) and MAKE them walk in front of the army men to " locate " the traps. they usually found more than one!
Hey man you got to do what you got to do to survive especially during that war. my father said it best "our fathers and grandfather's had Vietnam and then our Fathers and sons had Iraq and Afghanistan." no matter how you dices it gorilla warfare is more terrifying than conventional warfare.
@@seanherod9771 and there fathers had ww2 or Korea and this next gen caught the tail end of Afghanistan
so you're saying your dad went to someone else home and kidnapp vietnameze citizens and use them as a shield to uncover traps,what a hero ,an american champion wow
@@colorsstones8957 That's a special way of interpretation of the original comment.
He pretty much said they used captured enemy POWs as meat shields.
Kidnapping is different from capture. Look it up.
@@vincentlee7359 honestly, Americans should have never come to Vietnam.
Whoa! Those traps were a nightmare.
What brave and clever soldiers the nvc were great respect for them
My uncle was killed in Vietnam by a punji pit. He volunteered for a 2nd and third tour. He was killed 11 months into his 3rd tour. His unit was ambushed and was trying to execute a center peal to break contact and he ran into it.
my 3rd grade class has a field trip to a farm with a massive bush system and we made pg-13 vietnam traps, it was fun
i clicked on this video on accident but I still wanna finish bc I love infographics show
We have no choice. The country and people of Vietnam love peace. The safest place is everyone's home.
Rest in peace for all those who had lost their lives in war, the true enemy is government officials, religion and politics that forces us to fight. Not each other.
You left out, big business $$$
@@daffyd5867 Of cos he will leave out big business cos he was only focused on citing religion. Meanwhile, only one pretend religion qualifies to be in any such list, oh but he will overlook that.
@@kokoeteantigha389 they also referred to government officials and politics. And what is the pretend religion??
@@daffyd5867 All religions are false (lies) there is no god
Correction, what was referred as the two step snakes was the tiapan vipers confirmed by veterans after the war working along with scientists in the herpetology field.
The traps seems like it's from a movie
This was uploaded 2 minutes ago how do you even know lol
I saw some of these in my village 1 time loll it's real
Still there's 3 more booge trap that they didn't told about was door hole trap, fire oil door trap and the double foot smuch trap
Home Alone? 🏠
@@ucAnhNguyen-mx7nm Bro are you really saying "Booge trap" unironically...?
When i went to vietnam on vacation, the tour guide at cu chi tunnels actually said a lot of the traps were used by the VC mainly for hunting food. Particularly the punji stick trap. I suppose it could've served two purposes.
Oh yeah, my aunt who lives in vietnam fell into a pit in a jungle that had a lot of dead snake.
Vietnam is currently one of the countries most heavily contaminated with landmines and mines in the world. Particularly the number of bombs, the US military used in the Vietnam War about 15.35 million tons.. My country is proud to have repelled the imperialists who invaded us. From Vietnam
As gruesome and horrifying as these traps were, I will say, they were very well thought out and smart. I can’t imagine the excuriting pain those soldiers experienced, war is extremely tragic and violent. Thank you to all who serve and have served! 🇺🇸
The guy survived the war must have ultra instinct. Catching flies is nothing to him
Lol thanks for being that one guy
I’m not a fan of learning about war history, but the Infographics Show makes war history more interesting for me to learn! ☺️
The problem with history or the message, it's never about the message itself, it's about how the message is delivered, for instance you can have two people explain the message exactly detailed word-for-word, one person people might understand the message but the other person people wouldn't quite understand the person or wouldn't be interested in listening to that person.
@@frankfarmer7706 well a really good example is events like My Lai event or things like hill 192. The My Lai event were explained with really softened words. American media did censored things like what american soldiers did to girls as young as 10.
@@KFC431 why do you keep bringing this up everywhere?
@@ultrarising2983 Dude's got nothing better to do.
Strangely therapeutic whenever you remember the US government tried to gaslight themselves into heroes and forget all the warcrimes they committed everywhere they set their foot on.
I love how cheerfully the VC are going about their work lol
They were defending their homeland. It's a grim task, but one that you can find some pride in, I'd imagine.
This is how Rambo knows how to set all his traps
I am blown away by how they used Vipers in the war
There's 3 more booge trap that they didn't told about was door hole trap, fire oil door trap and the double foot smuch trap
It's amazing after watching this that any soldier survived...
I always wanted to see this video from the show