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Military cemetery in Vietnam
Trường Sơn Cemetery
Details
CountryVietnam
Coordinates16°57′31.03″N 106°57′17.50″E / 16.9586194°N 106.9548611°E / 16.9586194; 106.9548611
Typememorial
No. of intermentsMore than 10,000
Websitehttp://nghiatrangtruongson.quangtri.gov.vn/

The Trường Sơn Martyrs' Cemetery (Nghĩa trang liệt sĩ Trường Sơn "Long Mountains martyrs' cemetery") is a military cemetery in Vietnam. It is located on Highway 15 near the village of Ben Tat, northwest of Dong Ha. It contains the graves of PAVN soldiers killed on the 17th parallel north (Bến Hải River) DMZ and on the Trường Sơn "Long Mountain" Annamite Range Trail (known in the West as the "Ho Chi Minh Trail").

References

  1. Nick Ray, Yu-Mei Balasingamchow, Iain Stewart (2009). Lonely Planet Vietnam, p. 211, "Truong Son National Cemetery"
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