The fighting mostly took place in a jungle environment

Vietcong soldiers wore uniform all the time

The Punji trap was a pit of sharpened sticks with feces on the end

The Punji trap was designed to kill US soldiers

The Vietcong were protected by villagers

The Vietcong used helicopters to fight

American tactics to find the Vietcong were called find and kill

The Vietcong used tunnels to hide from the US soldiers

The Americans used Agent Orange to destroy villages

The US trained soldiers called tunnel rats to go into VC tunnels to look for them

The US used napalm, a huge bomb dropped on cities like Hanoi

The Vietcong used a variety of different traps