[Photo] House and bunker D67 relic - where General Vo Nguyen Giap wrote the historic secret telegram

NDO - The D67 house and bunker relic at Thang Long Imperial Citadel, Hanoi, is where the Politburo and the Central Military Commission made many decisions related to the plan for the 1975 Spring General Offensive and Uprising, moving towards liberating the South and unifying the country.

The meeting room of the Politburo and the Central Military Commission was where many confidential meetings of the Politburo and the Central Military Commission took place, making strategic decisions for the southern revolution from 1968 to 1975. In particular, in this room, from December 18, 1974 to January 8, 1975, the Politburo met, approved the plan to liberate the south in the two years 1975-1976, and emphasized "if the opportunity comes at the beginning or end of 1975, then immediately liberate the south in 1975".

The conference table is located in the center of the room, facing east-west. On the north-south sides of the room are four small tables, which are the seats of the meeting secretaries. Currently, on the table are arranged plaques bearing the names of 24 comrades who participated in the expanded Politburo meeting in late 1974 and early 1975.

The clocks and radios used by comrades in the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense , and the General Staff to listen to news and the war situation during the period 1972-1975 are on display at house D67.

Next to the meeting room of the Politburo and the Central Military Commission is the office of General Vo Nguyen Giap.

In this room, in his capacity as Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense, Commander-in-Chief of the Vietnam People's Army, General Vo Nguyen Giap wrote the secret telegram that went down in history: “Faster, faster; bolder, bolder. Seize every hour and minute, rush to the front to liberate the South…”.

The room is located in the east of house D67, 35m wide, where General Vo Nguyen Giap worked from November 1968 to 1980.

General Van Tien Dung's office is located west of building D67. Here, in his capacity as Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission and Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, the General signed many important directives and decisions, contributing to defeating the US Air Force's destructive war in the North.

D67 bunker (Central Military Commission bunker) was built in 1967 along with D67 building. The bunker is 9m deep and was solidly built to withstand bombs. The bunker has 3 floors of stairs.

The door is made of 12cm thick blue painted steel that can prevent water and toxic gas.

The main door leads to the hallway, with two ends leading up to two stairs leading to the offices of General Vo Nguyen Giap and General Van Tien Dung.

The D67 basement meeting room has a rectangular shape, 9.150m long; 3.88m wide; 0.47m thick wall made of high-grade reinforced concrete.

Many artifacts such as combat maps, meeting tables and chairs, and communication machines at tunnel D67 are still preserved intact, bringing a vivid feeling of a fierce but heroic historical moment of the nation.

Next to the meeting room is the Information and Duty Room, the Secretariat's workplace with radio systems and machines arranged in glass cabinets.

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