These are the most terrifying Vietnamese Booby Traps
Firstly are the Punji Sticks. These were bamboo or wooden stakes sharpened at one end and typically set into a hole. The hole was then camouflaged with foliage or thin twigs.
Someone fooled by the camouflage would fall into the hole landing on the spikes causing them to cry out in pain, revealing the location of american troops and obviously causing serious damage to the individual who fell in.
To make matters worse, sometimes these sticks were covered in poison of faeces to cause infections in the wound potentially resulting in amputation.
However, perhaps worst of all, these spikes may be attached to rotating logs or positioned at a downward angle meaning once your legs were impaled by the spikes you couldn’t pull them out of the trap.
