Pictures from Vietnam -American Hardware Dial-up DEATH

N.Vietnam had quite a few Czech advisers working with Migs up there-training of ground and technical crews mostly.

I heard some stories about Polish advisers working there with radar early warning systems and fire control for AAA but I haven't been able to find and reliable proof of that.

Do you have any pictures of N.Vietnamese Migs?Not many of them on the net.
 
Canada was not involved as anything other than Observer up along the DMZ.

Officially.

UNofficially, here is a question: howinnahell do ya know what you might be UP AGAINST if you have ZERO men who have been in that kind of war?

UNofficially, there were a very few.
 
Other than posting observers to the 2 International Control Commissions in Vietnam from 1954-1973 we had no official involvement in the Vietnam War. I recall being at the Combat Arms School in Camp Borden in 1967 at which time there was some attention paid to jungle/counter-insurgency ops. This involved some training in extended fighting patrols and more mucking around in the Minissing Swamps.We even had a mock Vietnamese village to train in. There was considerable practice in airmobile ops in the 1969-72 period after we had gotten the Huey helicopters, but Army training and doctrine was primarily focussed on conventional mech ops in a NATO scenario. Vietnam was seen as a "one off" type of war, which it was.
 
Taiwanese were there as well, flying C-123 for Air America. But like a few other countries, officially they weren't there.
 
antiqueguy said:
SAS most likely never really read that much into it but i did see the mention of british in vietnam although it was about 7 years ago
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dont know what you said but there is no evidense they did . anyways , you still wouldnt see any british L1A1 there .
 
Norwegians were also in Nam as skippers of Nasty boats with unofficial blessing from their govt no doubt. They drove Norwegian built PT boats deep into NV water to conduct coastal raids for SOG. US had to send them packing quickly after they blew their cover with some #1 boom boom girls at local whore house. RN also held training exercise with US 7th fleet from time to time in S China sea. Of course it had nothing to do with Nam war officially.
 
smellie said:
Canada was not involved as anything other than Observer up along the DMZ.

Officially.

UNofficially, here is a question: howinnahell do ya know what you might be UP AGAINST if you have ZERO men who have been in that kind of war?

UNofficially, there were a very few.
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A pal of mine has the Canadian vietnam service medal - As well as land duties , he was stationed on an aircraft carrier and flew backseat (observer) combat missions. We used to drink at the legion and the stories would come out - lots of "unofficial information" not known or admitted to today.

Before he died he was a member of the O.M.S.S with the then Ontario Lt. Governer H. Jackman .
 
The thing that looks sort of like the Apollo space craft is probably a mock - up of a 15000# device used for operations in support of combat engineers. It was a tool used to clear jungle areas so you could land helicopters.

In the dumb movie: "Outbreak" they were supposedly able to sterilize large areas of even microbial life - that is Hollywood science for you in a nutshell. :jerkit:

Dont' remember the designation for the device though.

you needed to fly a C130 over the area at a low speed & about 6000 ft or something like that & slide it out the back off of the loading ramp - not really a tactical weapon.

I am kind of wondering what he BESA machine gun was doing there, & was wondering what those machine guns with the short square receivers were - possibly something the French airforce would use?

Someone mentioned the crank version 40mm grenade launcher - I think it might have been made/designed by Honeywell, it sort of worked like a single barrel gatling gun, and used the M79 rounds.
 
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