Tanks For the Memories.

The Military History Museum, appropriately enough, is on Dien Bien Phu street. Pretty close to us, really, but we hadn't gotten around to going until this weekend. It was definitely worth a look.

The requisite MIG-21 out front.

And tank.

Inside, Uncle Ho.

Bicycle used on the Ho Chi Minh trail. Each one could transport
up to 800 pounds of food, ammunition and equipment.

Hand-made pistols made during the war against the French.

The heroic soldier is carrying a "three-legged bomb," (now we know)
a primitive anti-tank weapon that requires the wielder to run up
to an enemy tank and jam the explosive head into the wheels
in hope of blowing off a tread without blowing up one's self.
Dead-braving indeed.

Cannons from the colonial days.

The tank that stormed the Presidential Palace in Saigon in 1975.

Captured American aircraft and other equipment from the fall of Saigon.

Sculpture made from the remains of American planes shot down over Hanoi.

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