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I've heard that, in the Vietnam War, Vietnamese land mines were specifically designed to injure rather than kill in order to get medics to expose themselves to snipers while treating land mine victims. Is there truth to this? Or was it an American narrative built around an observed phenomenon?

by /u/Notmiefault in /r/AskHistorians

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