Dong Loc T-junction – Heroic historical relic site

The Dong Loc T-junction, belonging to Dong Loc commune, Can Loc district, Ha Tinh province and located on the Ho Chi Minh trail at the intersection of Highway 15A and Route 2, is dedicated to ten young female volunteers who sacrificed their lives to ensure the safe operation of the transport route linking to the southern front on July 24, 1968.

Covering an area of 50 hectares, Dong Loc T-junction was a strategic site located on the North-South supply route during the American war, handling supply trucks carrying soldiers, food, arms and munitions.
Covering an area of 50 hectares, Dong Loc T-junction was a strategic site located on the North-South supply route during the American war, handling supply trucks carrying soldiers, food, arms and munitions.

In order to keep traffic flowing to the southern front, all human resources were mobilised during wartime.

Ten young female volunteers, aged from 17 to 24, were killed when a bomb exploded in front of a tunnel they were hiding in whilst they trying to level bomb craters to reopen the intersection.

After the national reunification day, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union Central Committee decided to build a victory monument at Dong Loc T-junction.

Dong Loc bell tower, covering an area of nearly 7,000 square metres, was built in 2011 to express the gratitude of Vietnamese people, particularly the younger generation, to war martyrs, veterans and former volunteers who laid down their lives for national liberation.

The monument, which includes statues of the ten young female volunteers, is located near the centre of the historical relic site.

Thousands of artifacts relating to the 10 young female volunteers as well as soldiers, volunteers, traffic workers, drivers and civilians are displayed at the Dong Loc T-junction Museum.

Bomb shells collected fromb the Dong Loc battlefield were arranged into the shape of a plane plunging from the sky. The intersection was hit by 48,600 bombs of all kinds over 240 days from March to October, 1968.

Visitors from across the country flocked to the Dong Loc T-junction to pay tribute to the ten young girls and martyrs on the occasion of 68th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs Day (July 27) and 47th anniversary of the Dong Loc T-junction victory (July 24).

The soldiers of the People's Police Force offer incense at the tombs of ten young female volunteers.