After the Geneva Agreement (July 1954), our country was divided, and communication between the two revolutionary regions was extremely difficult through the only communication route, the western Quang Tri region, managed by the Inter-Zone Committee 5. However, this route could not meet the large demand for human and material support for the southern battlefield in the context of the increasingly growing resistance war.
To maintain contact and ensure timely direction from the Party Central Committee for the revolutionary movement in the South, the resolution of the 15th Central Conference (January 1959) of the Party set the task of opening a support route for the South as "a major task, of strategic significance, directly related to the cause of liberating the South and unifying the Fatherland". Group 559 was established on May 19, 1959 and was chosen as a "special military task force" to deploy engineering, logistics, medical, infantry and air defense forces to ensure the operation of this route. Khe Ho - located in the middle of a valley in the Southwest of Vinh Linh was chosen as the starting point to open the route "to the South".
Throughout the war, the Ho Chi Minh Trail was always the focus of fierce attacks by the enemy using all kinds of modern and sophisticated weapons. The US and the puppet regime launched many large campaigns with hundreds of planes spraying toxic chemicals along the transportation corridor, nearly 4 million tons of bombs and mines dropped on Truong Son to destroy the road, destroy convoys, and destroy all life to the point that "the forest had no leaves, the rocky mountains turned to mud".
With the spirit of "All for the front, all to defeat the American invaders", the shared will to "cut through Truong Son to save the country" and the determination to "fight the enemy and advance, open the way and advance", layers of forces from soldiers, youth volunteers, frontline laborers, traffic workers and people of all ethnic groups have always been persistent and resilient in holding on to the battlefield, holding on to the road, keeping this traffic artery open.
Over 16 years (1959 - 1975), from the trails along the majestic Truong Son range, the route was continuously expanded, reaching far and wide like a "bagua map" covering the Truong Son range, with a total length of up to 20,000km, crossing the North - South and the three Indochinese countries, reaching all battlefields, transporting more than 1 million tons of materials and weapons; bringing more than 2 million troops from the great rear of the North to the great front line of the South, contributing especially importantly to the victory of the resistance war against the US to save the country.
The exhibition "Truong Son Road - Legendary Ho Chi Minh Road" introduces about 100 documents and images that are the most concise content about the birth of the "Fire Line" of Truong Son Road, the strong vitality of the road through the bombs and bullets of war, becoming a miracle of fighting strength, victory, an outstanding success in the strategic direction of the Party, a legend in the history of defending the country of our people.
The exhibition includes 02 themes: Theme 1: Strategic support route for the South; Theme 2: Legendary road.
The stories about the legendary road told in the space of the Revolutionary House and Tunnel D67 relic site will bring visitors valuable information and documents about the role of the General Headquarters in the resistance war against the US to save the country, the strategic significance of the decision to open the Truong Son road from the Politburo and the Central Military Commission. "The Truong Son road, the Ho Chi Minh road is a great project, expressing the will, determination, courage and extraordinary creativity of the Vietnamese people, determined to bring the human and material resources of the great rear to support the great front line, is one of the strategic factors of decisive significance, bringing the resistance war against the US to save the country to complete victory" (General Vo Nguyen Giap).
The exhibition is open to visitors from April 26, 2024 to May 31, 2024, at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel Heritage Site, 19 Hoang Dieu, Ba Dinh, Hanoi./.
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