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Women helped in
nursing the wounded, constructing underground rooms and tunnels and fighting
the enemy. Along the Ho Chi Minh trail young volunteers kept open 2,195 kms of
strategic roads and guarded 2,500 key points.
They built six air strips,
neutralised tens of thousands of bombs, transported tens of thousands of
kilograms of cargo, weapons and food and shot down about fifteen planes.
Between 1965 and
1975 of the 17,000 youths who worked on the trail, 70 to 80 per cent were
women. One military historian argues that there were 1.5 million women in the
regular army, the militia, the local forces and professional teams.
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