Trường Sơn Cemetery

The Trường Sơn Martyrs' Cemetery (Nghĩa trang liệt sĩ Trường Sơn "Long Mountains martyrs' cemetery") is a military cemetery in Vietnam. It is located on Highway 15 near the village of Ben Tat, northwest of Dong Ha (16°57′17″N 106°57′14″E / 16.95472°N 106.95389°E). It contains the graves of PAVN soldiers killed on the 17th parallel north (Bến Hải River) DMZ and on the Trường Sơn "Long Mountain" Annamite Range Trail (known in the West as the "Ho Chi Minh Trail").[1]

References

  1. ↑ Lonely Planet Vietnam - Page 211 Nick Ray, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Iain Stewart - 2009 "TRUONG SON NATIONAL CEMETERY More effective than the nationalist propaganda that papers Vietnam's museums, this sprawling cemetery is a sobering memorial to the legions of North Vietnamese soldiers who died in the Truong Son Trail."
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, April 07, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.