International tourists attentively look at the exhibition about Truong Son Road – Photo: T.ĐEU
Stories about the legendary Truong Son Road during the resistance war against the US are being told in the space of the revolutionary relic site House and Tunnel D67, at Thang Long Imperial Citadel, in the exhibition Truong Son Road – legendary Ho Chi Minh Road.
The exhibition was organized by the Thang Long – Hanoi Heritage Conservation Center on the occasion of the 49th anniversary of National Unification Day (April 30, 1975 – April 30, 2024); 65 years since the opening of Truong Son – Ho Chi Minh road (May 19, 1959 – May 19, 2024).
Truong Son Road – the obsession of the White House
The exhibition introduces about 100 documents and images about the birth of the “fire line” of Truong Son Road, the strong vitality of the road through war bombs, becoming a miracle and a legend of Vietnamese people in the past. Ho Chi Minh era.
The smiles of young female volunteers participating in opening Truong Son road
The radiant smiles of the young girls who volunteered to pave the way, the hand in hand of the group of girls loading ammunition on the road that had to endure twice as many bombs and bullets as in World War II, and the commander Dong Sy Nguyen sat down with his teammates to find a plan to open a petroleum pipeline through the Truong Son range.
The ground is littered with bomb craters like a honeycomb, the forests are bare of leaves because of toxic chemicals…
Those are the images that move viewers in this exhibition.
And the numbers make viewers feel pain and pity for their heroic but hard-working country.
From 1965 to 1975, the US Air Force dropped over 4 million tons of bombs and ammunition of all kinds on Truong Son Road, double the total number of bombs and ammunition used in World War II (more than 2 million tons).
Yet, the boys and girls of Vietnam, through their flesh and blood, their love for the Fatherland and love for peace, have overcome bombs, bullets, and brutally destructive chemicals, transporting and organizing more than 2 million visits. soldiers and officers coming in and out; more than 1 million tons of goods to the southern battlefield.
The ground is full of bomb craters at the Truong Son road fire line
Both haunting and proud of viewers is the image of the ground filled with bomb craters after the US Air Force’s destructive carpet bombing.
But on those deadly roads, the Truong Son soldiers’ support convoys continued to move towards the South, their footsteps continued one after another to build peace. So much poetry and music was born from this road.
No bombs or bullets can cut off the road that is a symbol of great patriotism.
Therefore, the White House once considered that all their suffering “originates mainly from this impenetrable trail”.
The armies “cutting along Truong Son to save the country” on the road became the obsession of the White House
Generals of the legendary road
At the exhibition, viewers learned more about a general who was the architect of the Truong Son road, in addition to the name General Dong Sy Nguyen, closely associated with this road, that the public is familiar with.
Major General Vo Bam was the person assigned the responsibility of establishing the “Special Military Task Force” (Group 559) to open the way to the South. He was considered the man who “destroyed mountains and rocks”, and was compared to an “antique”. architect” of the legendary Truong Son Street.
Following in the footsteps of Major General Vo Bam is Lieutenant General Dong Sy Nguyen – Commander of Group 559 since 1967.
He was a person who made a particularly great contribution during the process of building and maintaining the legendary Ho Chi Minh Trail, and directly directed the military forces and youth volunteers to “cut along Truong Son Mountain”. Go save the country”.
Commander Dong Sy Nguyen approved the construction plan for a petroleum pipeline through the Central Highlands in the field, at the end of 1969.
The image of Commander Dong Sy Nguyen sitting in the middle of the forest, surrounded by his comrades, to approve the plan for constructing a petroleum pipeline through the Central Highlands at the end of 1969 makes viewers today moved by the simple generals of a time.
The exhibition also has other interesting information, such as the 1967 report of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam on the organization and activities of Group 559…
Documents of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam on the organization and activities of Group 559, 1967
Forever a legend on Truong Son road 
