A workshop on the Ho Chi Minh sea trail will be held on Sept. 22-23 inHai Phong city and will be the highlight of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of launching the legendary trail.
The workshop on“The Ho Chi Minh sea trail – the path of Vietnam’s will and creativity”will honour and recognise the great sacrifices as well as thecontributions of cadres, soldiers and people of coastal localities wherethe legendary transport trail ran during the war against the US, Lieut.Gen. Nguyen Tuan Dung, Deputy Head of the General Department ofPolitics the Vietnam People’s Army said in Hanoi on Sept. 13.
Theworkshop will also help recognise and thoroughly assess thesignificance and reasons for the success of the strategic supply routeto the south – the Ho Chi Minh trail at sea, he said.
ColonelNguyen Manh Ha, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Military HistoryInstitute, said the workshop’s organising board had received 76 historicreports from people who used to hold high positions in the Party, theState and the Army and senior officers of the Navy, and scientists,including soldiers and sailors of the legendary ships on the trail.
Fromthe time it was established on Oct. 23, 1961, the Ho Chi Minh sea trailfulfilled its task of allowing hundreds of ships to transport weapons,goods, medicine, cadres and soldiers from the rear in the north to thefrontline, directly contributing to the entire people’s efforts todefeat the US imperialists and liberate the south, reunifying thecountry./.
The workshop on“The Ho Chi Minh sea trail – the path of Vietnam’s will and creativity”will honour and recognise the great sacrifices as well as thecontributions of cadres, soldiers and people of coastal localities wherethe legendary transport trail ran during the war against the US, Lieut.Gen. Nguyen Tuan Dung, Deputy Head of the General Department ofPolitics the Vietnam People’s Army said in Hanoi on Sept. 13.
Theworkshop will also help recognise and thoroughly assess thesignificance and reasons for the success of the strategic supply routeto the south – the Ho Chi Minh trail at sea, he said.
ColonelNguyen Manh Ha, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Military HistoryInstitute, said the workshop’s organising board had received 76 historicreports from people who used to hold high positions in the Party, theState and the Army and senior officers of the Navy, and scientists,including soldiers and sailors of the legendary ships on the trail.
Fromthe time it was established on Oct. 23, 1961, the Ho Chi Minh sea trailfulfilled its task of allowing hundreds of ships to transport weapons,goods, medicine, cadres and soldiers from the rear in the north to thefrontline, directly contributing to the entire people’s efforts todefeat the US imperialists and liberate the south, reunifying thecountry./.
