The first Tunnel Rats units arrive in the Cu-Chi district in 1968 and they are special-trained to fight hand-to-hand combats underground. They can only rely on a flashlight, a knife and a pistol ...

Armed with only a flashlight and a pistol, they crawled into pitch-black tunnels—booby-trapped, enemy-packed, and airless. These were the tunnel rats of Vietnam. Gary Bettman tears down Paul ...