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at an angle. A soldier stepping into the pit would find it impossible to remove their leg without doing severe damage, and injuries might be incurred by the simple act of falling forward while one's leg is in a narrow, vertical, stake-lined pit. Such pits would require time and care to dig the
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The point of penetration was usually in the foot or lower leg area. Punji sticks were not necessarily meant to kill the person who stepped on them; rather, they were sometimes designed specifically to only wound the enemy and slow or halt their unit while the victim was evacuated to a medical
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Punji sticks were sometimes deployed in the preparation of an ambush. Soldiers lying in wait for the enemy to pass would deploy punji sticks in the areas where the surprised enemy might be expected to take cover, resulting in soldiers diving for cover potentially impaling themselves.
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Other additional measures include coating the sticks in poison from plants, animal venom, or even human feces, causing infection or poisoning in the victim after being pierced by the sticks, even if the injury itself was not life-threatening.
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by natural undergrowth, crops, grass, brush or similar materials. They were often incorporated into various types of traps; for example, a camouflaged pit into which a soldier might fall (it would then be a
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soldier's leg out, immobilizing the unit longer than if the foot were simply pierced, in which case the victim could be evacuated by
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Punji sticks would be placed in areas likely to be passed through by enemy troops. The presence of punji sticks may be
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Punji sticks were also used in Vietnam to complement various defenses, such as
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Inside the VC and the NVA: The Real Story of North Vietnam's Armed Forces
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The term first appeared in the English language in the 1870s, after the
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Sometimes a pit would be dug with punji sticks in the sides pointing
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encountered the sticks in their border conflicts against the
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Punji sticks used during the Vietnam War, photo from 1966
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Index

Punji stake
booby trapped
bamboo
Oxford English Dictionary

camouflaged
trou de loup
stretcher
fireman's carry
Vietnam War
barbed wire
British Indian Army
Kachins
Burma
Area denial weapon
NLF and PAVN strategy, organization and structure
NLF and PAVN logistics and equipment
NLF and PAVN battle tactics




"Cat Lo: A Memoir of Invincible Youth"
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