The military museum in Hanoi explains the struggle of the Vietnamese people against the Chinese, Japanese and French imperialists. Of special interest are various pieces of equipment captured during the war against the USA. We also saw there the famous T54 battle tank that crashed through the gates of the Presidential Palace in Saigon in 1975, thus ending the war.

Not pictured but also included is a WW2 era T34 used during ’70s conflict.

One interesting thing is that the war against China from 1979 is only briefly mentioned as “The North war” and not as “the war against China”, most likely to maintain good relationship with their neighbor.