In the late sixties and early seventies, the Vietnam was was always in the news. I knew that Vietnam had a lot of jungles. And when they talked about geurilla (gorilla) warfare, I always pictured big black apes in army uniforms, wearing helmets and carrying machine guns and jumping out of trees, attacking American soldiers.
A childhood belief about wars
you weren't the only one
83 of you believed this
- I thought “guerrilla tactics” meant fighting like a gorilla— beating your chest and that sort of thing.— Kai
- I was convinced that Gorilla soldiers in Vietnam in the 70's were real Gorillas attacking other Soldiers.— Mario
- that Guerilla Warfare was called "Gorilla Warfare" and it's about fighting gorillasAnon
- From a TV news program about freedom fighters, I though that `Gorrillas` could use guns.— adrian
- That "guerilla warfare" involved real Gorillas.— Geoffrey
- I used to beleive that gorilla wars were fought by gorillas.— Professor Luke