Pictures from Vietnam -American Hardware Dial-up DEATH

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Here are a few pictures of captured South Vietnamese/ American weapons and ordnance at the war museum in Saigon Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. Thought you guys might find it interesting


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I don't know why but the Vietnam war is so intriguing to me thanks for posting your pictures. I couldn't help but notice other westerners in some of your pictures, are those people with you or just other people touring the museum.
I imagine you run into lots of Canadians and Americans.
 
I was in Vietnam last year, and when we were touring the "Hanoi Hilton" prison, our guide told us that the Vietnamese call that war "The American War".

Never thought of it that way before but I guess it makes sense.
 
Wow, amazing displays, many of those items look to be fresh from Vietnam war service.

Definitely a place to visit on my museum list.
 
There are alot of tourists in Vietnam, mostly Australians and Europeans, a few Canadians and some Americans. Contrary to what I thought, the younger generation of Vietnamese dont seem to harbour resentment to the Americans, they watch American movies and TV and I think they find the American culture appealing. There was only approx 30 million Vietnamese after the war and now there are 85 million ish, so the majority were born after the war.
 
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There are alot of tourists in Vietnam, mostly Australians and Europeans, a few Canadians and some Americans. Contrary to what I thought, the younger generation of Vietnamese dont seem to harbour resentment to the Americans, they watch American movies and TV and I think they find the American culture appealing. There was only approx 30 million Vietnamese after the war and now there are 85 million ish, so the majority were born after the war.
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It's also important to remember that the US and the South Vietnamese were allied, fighting the North - so it wasn't as if it was the US vs. the Vietnamese as a whole.
 
early version of the mk 19 grenade launcher- i beleive- there were several different versions of "the box" - you mostly saw those on the tails of lssc- i've seen the one with the crank up close
 
Thanks for posting!

Were there any K98 Mausers in the museum? Apparantly, the K98 made it's way into communist hands and some were brought back to the US by returning vets with capture papers in the 60's and 70's.
 
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