Captured weapons used by the Viet Cong. These weapons are most certainly obsolete by the time this picture was taken(1965) and were given in part by aid from the USSR or captured from U.S./ARVN forces.
Sergeant Ronald Payne of Co A, 1st Battalion, 5th Mechanized Infantry, 25th Infantry Division entering a VC tunnel outside of Saigon during Operation Cedar Falls in 1967.
Spc. Richard “Dickie” Allen Cable, rifleman assigned to B Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division, assist a wounded soldier in Vietnam in the late 1960’s. U.S. Army 1st Sgt. Richard “Dickie” Allen McChesney talks…