War Remnants Museum
Phường 6, Quận 3, Hồ Chí Minh 700000, VietnamI’m not familiar with any of the military stuff, so I looked it up! The military equipment includes a Bell UH-1 "Huey" helicopter, an Northrop F-5A fighter, a BLU-82 "Daisy Cutter" bomb, M48 Patton tank, an Douglas A-1 Skyraider attack bomber, and an Cessna A-37 Dragonfly attack bomber.
But it turns out that many of the aircraft decorated with non-standard "U.S. Air Force" decals were actually from the South Vietnamese Air Force, altered for display.
There are some pieces of unexploded ordnance (yikes) stored in the corner of the yard, with their charges and/or fuses removed.
One building reproduces the "tiger cages" in which the South Vietnamese government kept political prisoners. Yeah, didn’t see or photographer that.
Other exhibits include graphic photography, accompanied by a short text in English, Vietnamese and Japanese, covering the effects of Agent Orange and other chemical defoliant sprays, the use of napalm and phosphorus bombs, and war atrocities such as the My Lai massacre. If you’re easily insulted you should probably just skip this whole thing, they really don’t pull any punches when it comes to US involvement.
Curiosities include a guillotine used by the French and South Vietnamese to execute prisoners, the last time being in 1960, and three jars of preserved human fetuses deformed by exposure to dioxins and dioxin-like compounds, contained in the defoliant Agent Orange. I’m afraid that I skipped these things, just too much for me.
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Monday07:30 – 17:30
Tuesday07:30 – 17:30
Wednesday07:30 – 17:30
Thursday07:30 – 17:30
Friday07:30 – 17:30
Saturday07:30 – 17:30
Sunday07:30 – 17:30
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