Booby trap

Due to an extreme amount of unfortunate circumstances, The Vietnam War was deemed as the “unwinnable war”. Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War stemmed in August 1962, in support of South Vietnam and putting an end to the spread of communism. This started due to the separation between the French Indo-china and the following requests of realignment between the countries, yet the Vietnamese weren’t interested in the realignment. Australia’s engagement in the war mainly consisted of Army…

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insomnia, days without sleep left them with hallucinations and slow reactions. Always being on your feet but hardly sleeping confused their brain, servicemen became delirious and unstable. There were many booby traps throughout Vietnam, even in their own camps. For instance, the “Pungy-Pits”, these traps were holes in the ground that contained large spikes coated with a type of poison that caused infection quicker, and when they ran out of poison they put feces, vomit, and urine in the pits…

website that further down the timeline of Harris and Klebold, the two both managed to secure a job at a local pizza place called Blackjack Pizza. Once employed, a long history began where they performed multiple acts of mischief including setting booby traps, lighting fireworks, and starting small fires. This workplace also became the scene of where one of the gun deals occurred between the supplier and the kids (Shepard). When asked about Eric Harris, a lot of people said that they never saw…

South Vietnam were not the only ones being aided by outside counties. The Soviet Union and China the biggest communist powers at the time backed the North Vietnam. In the beginning of the war under Stalin’s regime there was not much support from the Soviet side. Though soviets did consider the Viet Minh as the official leaders of Vietnam their overall support was not big. There were several reasons why Stalin did this. One reason was because Stalin did not want to get on bad terms with the west…

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fact, he was loyal and brave to his countrymen. Still, there was only one thing he was scared the most. He was extremely afraid of the Army optician. In O’Brien story, he said about Curt Lemon 's death: “The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. When a guy dies, like Lemon, you look away and then look back for a moment and then look away again. The pictures get jumbled; you tend to miss a lot.” It was another day for…

The first major battle between the soldiers of the United States Army and the troops from the People’s Army of Vietnam was the Battle of Ia Drang. This particular battle, held between November 14 and November 18, 1965, was especially significant because it included a wide arrow of strategic guerrilla warfare tactics all the way to using air support to an advantage. The 4-day battle deepened the United States’ involvement with South Vietnam against the North Vietnamese forces. North Vietnam…

The book “The Things They carried” by Tim O’Brien was about the Vietnam war. One of the things that is in the book is that there is more than what is just on the surface of the war. It puts a personal spin on the dry material that is usually read about wars. Tim O’Brien was in the Vietnam war when he was a young man, and he uses these experiences to write both fictional stories and nonfictional stories about this war. When a person is about to start reading this book they must go into it…