Vietnam War footage: Cameras observed

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I think they were left over from earlier times, or were "smuggled" in by people who believed them superior for whatever reason. The 30-30 round of the carbine would have been a better leaf cutter by a little. The military .45 round was greatly over rated. I saw carbines, but not many. Often I think they may have been liberated from VC. The grease gun was fun to play with. However, the M-16 was superior in all respects for Vietnam and most other combat. That's true but hard to say for an old M-1 sharpshooter and afficionado.



I was not aware of that. They may have been in the inventory, but I would not have thought they were used for anything but arming indigenous troops in various parts of the world, or for special ops trying to disallow any connection with the USA. If you know different I would be interested in hearing more, because most troops from mid-60s were using M-16s.
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Some French forces (chiefly paratroopers, I think) used the M-1 carbine with the folding metal stock during their misadventure in Vietnam. A lot of them ended up captured.

U.S. forces early on in Vietnam used the M-14 but the high humidity distorted the stock and therefore the barrel. The problem was solved later with the advent of a fiberglass stock for the M-14 but by then the U.S. had moved on to the M-16. The M-14 did remain in the inventory for many years with some units as a sniper rifle but I don't know whether it is still being used as such.
 
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Some French forces (chiefly paratroopers, I think) used the M-1 carbine with the folding metal stock during their misadventure in Vietnam. A lot of them ended up captured.
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No surprise since the USA was the main weapons supplier to the French up to their defeat in May 1954 at Diên Biên Phu.
 
Last night I attended a talk by Tim Page, who is being paid to spruik the Fujifilm X100. He is a fascinating man and his images that he showed from his first shot he was paid for in Laos, through to Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor and Afghanistan were simply amazing and very moving.
He is very anti-war as you can imagine, and his stories and thoughts on the changing world of photojournalism were also very interesting.
 
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