Tym razy zwolnionym stapia sobą dwie ścieżki dystrybutor tym jej into the night. end quote 2004 Along the Ho trail Phanop Valley, Bomb craters clearly visible along the road. Legend of the Ho trail, LaosGPSmap Senior General described the end state of the trail, after the final 1975 victory as such: The strategic route east of the Truong Range, which was completed early 1975, was the result of the labor of more than 30 troops and shock youths. The length of this route, added to that of the other old and new strategic routes and routes used during various campaigns built during the last war, is more than 20 kms. The 8-meter wide route of more than 1 kms is our pride. With 5 kms of pipeline laid through deep rivers and streams and on mountains more than 1 meters high, we were capable of providing enough fuel for various battlefronts. More than 10 transportation vehicles were put on the road. The infamous Bac ammo dump. camp site was a few hundred meters to the North, I was quite surprised when I woke up from campsite the remote jungle, and found there were others camping the area. These guys were marooned here for 6 weeks as they had no fuel to get the trucks out. They told me the company did not have any money for fuel. Legend of the Ho trail, LaosGPSmap Mig 21 Lao Air force During the Vietnam War, B-52D tail gunners were credited with shooting down two MiG-21 Fishbeds. On 18 December 1972 tail gunner Staff Sergeant O. Turner's B-52 had just completed a bomb run for Operation Linebacker II and was turning away when a North Vietnamese Air Force MiG-21 approached. The MiG and the B-52 locked onto one another. When the fighter within range, Turner fired his quad .50 caliber machine guns. The MiG exploded aft of the bomber, as confirmed by Sergeant Louis E. Blanc, the tail gunner a nearby Stratofortress. Turner received a Silver for his actions. His B-52, tail number 55, is preserved on display with air-to-air kill markings at Fairchild AFB Spokane, Washington.. A forgotten area of the Ho trail, a farmer clears his land to discover a Vietnamese riverboat bound for the Xekong river at the foreground is the remains of the truck that was pulling the boat along the Ho trail.This river boat, has a recessed propeller and keel coolers for shallow draft operation. Sadly I watched the scrap metal hunters carve this up with gas torches to be sold as scrap steel. After the war, the collection and sale of war debris turned into a valuable scrap metal industry for tribes' people Xieng Khouang province and along the Ho Trail. Bomb casings, aircraft fuel tanks and other bits and pieces that were not sold to Thailand have been put to every conceivable use rural Laos. They are used as cattle troughs, fence posts, flower pots, stilts for houses, water carriers, temple bells, knives and ploughs.Kids with metal detectors are on scrap metal hunt the only source of income for Laos, Collectors often spend weeks or even month on end the thick jungle, dragging large pieces of Vietnam War- scrap metal to the roadside, awaiting pickup by transport trucks Ho trail Remains M41 BulldogBetween Aloui and Landing Zone Alpha, the armored column was ambushed at a stream crossing and four M41 tanks were abandoned the middle of the stream isolating the 11th Armored Cavalry on the west bank. The airborne soldiers abandoned the cavalry and kept on marching east down QL 9. No reinforcements were sent and no recovery vehicles came to remove the abandoned tanks. The 11th fought on alone, and after three hours cleared a way across but had to leave seventeen disabled vehicles on the west side of the stream. The NVA used the vehicles as machine gun positions until the vehicles were destroyed on 25 Laos, Ho trailThe next day, the 1st Armored Brigade