Museum of War Victims ( Vietnamese. Bảo tàng chứng tích chiến tranh ) is a military museum in Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam . Museum address: Vo Van Tan Street, 28, 3rd District. The museum exposition is devoted to the main phase of US participation in the Vietnam War . The museum is managed by the government of Vietnam. It was opened in September 1975. The original title was “The Home for the Display of the War Crimes of American Imperialism and the Puppet Government of South Vietnam ”. Later, the name was changed to "Museum of American War Crimes." In 1993, the name changed to the War Crimes Museum. The current title reflects the process of liberalization in Vietnam and the normalization of relations with the United States.
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The exhibition of the museum consists of eight topics and is located in several buildings. The trophy military equipment is located in the courtyard, including the UH-1 Huey helicopter, the F-5 fighter, the BLU-82 bomb (the Daisy Cutter is a daisy mower), the M48 tank and the A-1 attack aircraft . In the corner of the yard contains unexploded ordnance. The museum is a US-made attack aircraft A-37 (serial number 70-1285). This aircraft served in the Air Force of South Vietnam, then was captured by the North Vietnamese and continued service as part of the Air Force of Vietnam [1] . Despite this, the aircraft in the museum is carrying American identifiers and the inscription US AIR FORCE (that is, the United States Air Force ) on board.
In one of the buildings there are “tiger cages” in which political prisoners were kept by order of the government of South Vietnam. Other exhibits include photographs, accompanied by brief explanations in English, Vietnamese and Japanese, showing the consequences of using the agent Origins and other defoliants, napalm and phosphorus bombs, cruelty (including the Songmi massacre ). Among the exhibits there is a guillotine, which the French and South Vietnamese used to execute prisoners (the last execution took place in 1960) and three vessels with canned fruits that have been mutated by dioxin.