A group of farmers have come up with an ingenious way of recycling the thousands of external fuel tanks jettisoned by U.S planes during the Vietnam War - by turning them into river boats and canoes.
The huge chunks of aluminum were discarded by U.S. planes during the late 1960s and early 1970s and remain scattered throughout the forests of southern Vietnam to this day.
But rather than leaving the abandoned fuel tanks to go unused, local farmers have started cleaning and customising the hollow tubes, with dozens of them now in use as river boats and canoes throughout the region.
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