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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A former network of supply routes extending from North Vietnam through Laos and Cambodia into South Vietnam. During the Vietnam War, the North Vietnamese government used the Ho Chi Minh Trail to supply materiel to its troops and the Vietcong.
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Examples
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We should have learned about ratlines long ago, from hard experience -- the Ho Chi Minh Trail was the biggest ratline of them all, a bustling ant trail through the jungles of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia swarming with men and women on foot, on bicycles, in battered Chinese-made trucks, delivering fresh troops and war supplies to the south.
Nick Mills: Mixed Messages Nick Mills 2010
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Vang Pao led by example, and through his tireless community involvement he gave a new generation of Hmong in the U.S. a strong sense of cultural pride, said Thavisouk Phrasavath, a Laotian-American filmmaker whose father fought in forces allied with the general along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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One was an aerial campaign against North Vietnam and the infiltration routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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One was an aerial campaign against North Vietnam and the infiltration routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail through Laos.
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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He came back with his limbs, but his soul was still wandering along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
Magic City Trick Daddy 2010
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The Vietnamese Communists, masters of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, understood this better than anyone.
How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010
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Perhaps 150,000 northern troops remained in parts of the South, and the Ho Chi Minh Trail running through Laos and Cambodia was upgraded to a modern highway in order to pre-position men and supplies for a future invasion.
How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010
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You will recollect that it was considered essential, if we were to succeed, to cut off the supply of men and materiel coming down the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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Distributed wireless sensor arrays: on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
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Distributed wireless sensor arrays: on the Ho Chi Minh Trail
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