"Check the sack!" Topic
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| tomrommel1 | 14 Apr 2021 10:51 p.m. PST |
Another pair of twins. You should always check the rice sacks !!
More at link |
 Legion 4  | 15 Apr 2021 11:53 a.m. PST |
Yeah … the guy with the Bren is good indication … that they are VC. |
 deadhead | 15 Apr 2021 12:17 p.m. PST |
Viet Minh I suggest. He is carrying a Bren gun. I am sure early VC still used it. Great weapon and totally underrated compared with LMGs such as the MG42. Accurate. OK only put two bullets into each of the bad guys, while the MG42 tore the good guys in two. Barrel lasted longer and even a 17 year old with shoulder length hair could operate it in 1969. Heck, I could even carry it. Resting the butt on my hip to look cool….that I could not do. But I tried…I was a total a-hole back then. Stress just back then. |
| Brian Smaller | 15 Apr 2021 1:19 p.m. PST |
while the MG42 tore the good guys in two. My dad told me his platoon sergeant, a Maori guy called Mick Kenny, got hit by a burst from an MG42 and went cartwheeling down a set of stairs in an old Italian farmhouse. Dad said he thought "he had been cut in half". He was barely alive when he was taken away to the Battlaion Aid Station but had been hit three times across the stomach so they pretty much figured him a goner. I met Mick Kenny when he was in his 80s. |
| Skarper | 15 Apr 2021 4:53 p.m. PST |
an FM24/31 might be more likely – but this is definitely a Bren gun and no doubt they were used in South East Asia. Another nice addition to a very innovative range. |
| Legion 4 | 16 Apr 2021 4:19 p.m. PST |
Yes, as we know almost just about every type of small arm was used in Vietnam. Remember, the UK & Indian Armies got there before the French. At the end of WWII to accept the IJFs' surrender, intern them in POW Camps, etc. Even rearmed the IJFs to help putting down the Viet Minh insurgency, etc. Until the French got there in larger numbers. |
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