Synopsis
Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a network of tunnels during the Vietnam War.
- Programme: Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields
- Episode: 05: 1968 Vietnam
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2007
- History
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