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Adventures on the Ho Chi Minh Trail

Digby's Journal

The Ho Chi Minh Trail: Then and Now (Part 1)

We've spent more than 20 years exploring and the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and have compiled this set of images comparing what it looked like then with now.
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Nguyen Dong Si, the chief of staff for the 559 Engineering Corps

The Ho Chi Minh Trail: Then and Now (Part 2)

Cluster bombs, shell casings, and original cobblestoned sections of the Trail can still be seen in Laos. Explore our massive HCM Trail image gallery.
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a soldier by an A1 Skyraider

The Ho Chi Minh Trail: Then and Now (Part 3)

The Trail was a vital logistical network involving comms and pipeline networks. Keep exploring one of the largest collections of HCM Trail pictures ever.
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another Vietnamese truck driver

The Ho Chi Minh Trail: Then and Now (Part 4)

Relentless bombing devasted the Laotian countryside. Check out part 4 of our gallery of images of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, taken before and after the war.
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Forrest-Fenn when rescued

Jet Crashes and Hidden Treasure

In 2019 Digby found the crash site of a USAF jet fighter that was shot down over Laos in 1968. It had been piloted by Forrest Fenn
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Indiana Jones and his father having an argument on an old Soviet motorcycle

Urals and Minsks on the Silver Screen

650cc Russian Ural and 125cc Belarusian Minsk motorcycles are pieces of motorcycling history. Here are a few times they've been in the spotlight.
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a captured tank in Lam Son

Disaster on Highway 4

The Battle of Route Coloniale 4 was one of the most important of the First Indochina War. Here's what happened.
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