Vietnam War Booby Traps: How do they work?

In this video we will look at how the booby traps used by the Vietcong soldiers during the Vietnam War work.

Vietcong Booby Traps became known because of the damage they caused not only physically but also psychologically to American soldiers during the Vietnam war.

Physical and psychological because the damage and pain caused by these booby traps on the human body was really horrifyingly unimaginable.

The American soldiers entering the enemy's den would be really nervous because at any moment, one of them will fall victim to a booby trap.

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[literacycornerglobal]

Watch our video about WWII Dive Bomber Aircrafts.
We also have a video about WWI Trench Warfare here.
We also have a video about 'What's Inside the Vietcong Tunnels'.
This is the video about 'Vietnam War Tunnel Rats'.

[kaloifortich]

Even if a trap fails. It would probably spook the soldiers to the point of overwhelming stress.

[ansonang]

Vietcong strategy was not to kill enemy soldiers but to injure them enough for hospital care. As caring for injured soldier is more expensive and requires more labor to care for than a dead one.

[sarxeye]

I realy admire the Vietnams for being so creative with their traps. Even if their enemy has succeeded to enter their land there will still be many dangerous obstacles

[arusirham]

I like how the soldier keeps dancing even after being stabbed in the face. 😂 2:43

[azdrifter]

Crazy to think that humans actually got caught in these traps and had to go through that, way out in a jungle on the other side of the globe from their home. I was watching a special on the Vietnam war recently where they were interviewing soldiers from both sides this many years after the war. The Vietnamese soldiers said they had no idea why America was attacking them and they were fighting because they thought the Americans had come to kill them all. Many Vietnamese soldiers still didn't know what the war was being fought for even today. We were being told the Vietnamese soldiers were fighting because they were trying to spread communism. The Vietnamese said that was untrue and they were just fighting because they were being attacked and didn't know what else to do. America constantly lies to start wars. Like when we destroyed Iraq over weapons of mass destruction they didn't have. Scary to know we live in a country that constantly starts wars based on lies and can just send you to fight and die in those wars whenever they want.

[ДауренБейсембаев-хш]

Баскыншыларды осылай аямай олтиру керек. Оларга ешким озге елге басып кир деген жок.

[vietnamese]

Mục đích quan trọng của bẫy, là chúng tôi cần một vài lính Mỹ gào rú khóc thét trong đau đớn, những kẻ còn lại sẽ mất phương hướng, lúc đó người Mỹ tự nhận mọi thứ là kẻ thù của họ.

Chỉ cần người dân thấy lính Mỹ hành quân lập tức cuộc hành quân ấy không còn bí mật nữa, và một lý do thần thánh nào đó tự bạn sẽ tìm đến bụi cây để tâm sự bằng tiếng Việt.

Chúng tôi có thể ở trong rừng nhiều năm quan sát lính Mỹ vô rừng một hoặc hai ngày rồi về, chúng tôi có thể ở dưới đất nhiều năm quan sát lính Mỹ đi tới đi lui

Người Mỹ có thể đánh chiếm một thành phố, một khu vực nhưng không thể giữ được bất cứ một ngôi làng nào cả, và ngôi làng chính là ngọn lửa thiêu rụi mọi thứ thuộc về Mỹ.

Chúng tôi nhận thức rất rõ nhân dân Mỹ là người yêu chuộng hòa bình không muốn chiến tranh, cũng giống như những người cha người mẹ Việt Nam rất yêu thương con của mình, chúng tôi vô cùng biết ơn những người dùng nhiều cách phản đối chiến tranh góp phần xây dựng tình hữu nghị Việt Nam và Mỹ hôm nay.

Chúng tôi còn nhiều thứ phải học hỏi

[kaya]

What I understand is that you shouldn’t mess up with other nations in their own motherland

[fauzulazim]

As a veteran of Vietcong game, this is the most difficult game I've ever played.
If this happened in the real world, I would definitely refuse to go to war in Vietnam

[Rednotsusvn]

As an vietnamese, I can confirm that we used a lot of spike for it :)

[ChrisAsian]

As a Vietnamese, I would say our traps are lethal

[SpontaneousTube]

When the worlds most technological advanced army meets the worlds most spiked army lol.

[manolismi]

Well done to the Vietnamese people for the victory against Americans!! Americans and French shouldn't have gone to Vietnam. I have visited Vietnam and i respect those people!! If anyone visits the War Remnants Museum at Ho chi Minh and Cu Chi tunnels will learn what really happened at war between Vietnam and American. Respect to Vietnamese people!!!

[Klirabozni]

Vietnam have right to defend themselves

[Bakonchu_Mukho]

That soldier dance got me laughing hard😂

[ANKITSingh-egww]

Just one simple question, What the hell were Americans doing a foreign land without any provocation or attack. You were the one who are aggressor or intruders here.

[ToastBehindBeans]

7:44 imagine you are in one of the most brutal wars in history and right before you're about to die you pull out the "bellie Jean's not my lover" dance moves.

[SamTeeWe]

Vietnamese people playing Home Alone with US soldiers

[TranTran-rozb]

A common signal that many Vietcong used not only in trap marking but also inteligent signal is the V symbol which stand for Vietnam. They often are a rock cut to triangle shape, a 2 branch tree or a deer antles. They don't have a static meaning, sometime they mean "careful trap here", other time they are "this path is safe". To fully understand the V they gave it a context to get the meaning. For example, if the V point north it mean a safe mark, if it point south mean dangerous mark. If V point to a big tree mean hideout near. If V point to a water source like stream, small pond or if V being cut, broke mean this is the way US went. They even choose color for the V rock to diffirentiate between bad and good, black stone has negative meaning and opposite.