The Truong Son-Ho Chi Minh Road is a heroic victory, a historical miracle, a precious experience of the Party, the army and the people, and it will forever remain in the golden pages of the history of the Vietnamese people's war of resistance against aggression.
Running for 45 minutes, never-before-told stories about the Ho Chi Minh Trail will be featured in the documentary Truong Son Epic, directed by Nguyen Thanh Nguyen, Vietnam Television Documentary Center.
By the day of the liberation of the South and the reunification of the country (April 30, 1975), the Truong Son Road or Ho Chi Minh Trail had existed for nearly 6,000 days and nights. The forces of engineers, young volunteers and civilians in Truong Son, numbering about 120,000 people, created a solid and continuous road network with 5 vertical trunk roads and 21 horizontal trunk roads connecting the east to the west of the Truong Son mountain range, with a total length of nearly 20,000 kilometers, 1,400 kilometers of pipelines, 3,140 kilometers of "camouflaged roads" for vehicles traveling during the day, and thousands of bridges and underground sewers.
The production team of Truong Son Epic documentary traveled from Hanoi to Quang Binh and stopped at some typical places like Dong Loc Crossing, Tam Co Cave and Long Dai Ferry Pier where they met with local witnesses. They will tell the audience about the fierce battles and the famous victories of Truong Son's soldiers in those years.
The documentary Truong Son Epic will be aired on May 15 at 20:10 on VTV1. Stay tuned.
