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To: DUMBGRUNT

SOF had an article about how the VC dug some kind of a bell-shaped room to detect vibrations from B-52s or something along those lines.

That is all I remember and I can’t find anything online about it.


21 posted on 03/03/2023 10:05:05 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

—”the VC dug some kind of a bell-shaped room to detect vibrations from B-52s”

The Vietnamese are clever and industrious people.

A friend employed some papa sans to make bar stools for the “club”. He gave them a piece of plywood with circles carefully laid out and a regular hand saw, for cutting 2x4s. Start with squares... octagons...like forever.
Soon it was two old men squatting with a scrap of wood and two nails, center point and OD. Pass it back and forth and strike the OD nail a bit deeper with each pass.

Typical for the area.


29 posted on 03/03/2023 10:33:34 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messa)
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