Fragmentation Vests . Soon the country became officially unified as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Vietnam was now a communist country. Booby Traps were heavily utilized during the Vietnam War. Unlike those traps, explosively formed penetrators (EFPs) have only been used as missiles against enemy armor. Counting US forces alone, there were over 300,000 wounded in Vietnam. It involved the United States supporting the South Vietnamese in an attempt to stay free from communism, but ended with the withdrawal of U.S. troops and a unified communist Vietnam. An accomplished sniper, Waldron’s record of 109 confirmed kills stood as the most by an American sniper until it was broken by Navy SEAL Chris Kyle. This is the only difference between Vietnam War dated goggles and modern examples. According to statistics compiled by the Australian Ministry of Defence (Australia had men in Vietnam for almost the entire conflict), 11% of all deaths and 15% of all wounds in Vietnam were due to booby traps (this is for all Allied troops, including US armed forces). So far, most of the traps on this list were designed to get up close and personal with infantry. CIA activities in Vietnam were operations conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency in Indochina and then Vietnam from the 1950s to the late 1960s, before and during the Vietnam War.Historically, Vietnam became a part of French Indochina in 1887. In April of 1975 South Vietnam surrendered to North Vietnam. This pair is dated 1974. EFPs were first developed during World War II and … These weapons put a great stress and psychological fear in the minds of soldiers. The Vietnam War (1959-1975) was long and drawn out. The US had lost the Vietnam War and also taken a major blow in the Cold War. --In 1965, the US decides on bombing pauses in hopes that it can negotiate with the North Vietnamese. During the Vietnam War, motorcycles were rigged with explosives by the National Liberation Front and abandoned. Although Vietnam became independent after World War II, the French continued to rule the country until 1954, and did not encourage any CIA activity. Booby traps in the Vietnam War A booby trap is a device set up to be triggered by an unsuspecting victim. --In 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson refuses to speak out on the Vietnam war, but rather take immediate action and allow several attacks on North Vietnam, but these attacks were refuted with shootings and guerrillas. U.S. soldiers would be tempted to ride the motorcycle and thus trigger the explosives. As the word trap implies, they often have some form of … This booby trap was an act of pure ingenuity. The M1952 was developed during the Korean War and was used right through the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong were using every single thing they had at their disposal to inflict casualties on American forces, which included animals in their environment. In the 1960's dated goggles the strap goes through the lens. They would take the snakes, and trap them in old weapons caches, to attack soldiers who might discover them. A type of booby-trap was referred to in an 1839 news story in The Times. The main purpose of these instruments of war was to delay and frustrate the enemy. A few months later in March the final US troops were removed from Vietnam. Born in Virginia in March of 1933, Adelbert Waldron III served in the Vietnam War as a Staff Sergeant for the 9th Infantry Division.