Rare images and unknown facts about the Indochina war.
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General Vo Nguyen Giap inspecting an antique Gatling gun that has been repurposed into an Anti-air gun by the Vietminh during the Indochina war The Vietminh had used Gatling guns in combat against French troops with certain success in 1948.
Hungarian Military Aid to North Vietnam from 1968 to 1969. While seemingly lackluster, Hungary was actually the largest supplier of sniper rifles and smoke grenades to North Vietnam, so much so that Mosin sniper rifle was nicknamed "Hungarian rifle" by North Vietnamese troops.
PAVN Mk-19 automatic grenade launcher crew moving through a cave in Vy Xuyen, 1987, Sino-Vietnam war. The Mk-19 is a powerful support weapon system, and in some units was used as platoon-level fire support.
PKM during the Vietnam war
The PK series general purpose machine gun was one of the rarest machine guns used by the NVA during the Vietnam war. In early 1972, one sample was captured by 4th US Calvary in Quang Tri and shipped to Aberdeen Proving Ground for further testing.
A group of Vietcong carrying an unexploded bomb back to their base, likely to convert it into booby traps. One of them carried a MAS-38 submachine gun that had been converted to fire 7.62x25mm
Australian troops testing a Type 59 MBT that was captured by the ARVN during the 1972 Easter Offensive and later gifted to Australia. The original graffiti on the front armor was still visible
The Vietcong who killed a US General.
On 12 May 1970, Major General Dillard and nine GI were killed when their UH-1 helicopter was shot down by Puih Glo, a 16-year-old Vietcong armed with an AR-15. Unaware of whom he had killed, Glo was only credited with the feat after the war.
