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The M60 is a belt-fed machine gun that fires the 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge (similar to .308 Winchester), which is commonly used in larger rifles, such as the M14. It is generally used as a crew-served weapon and operated by a team of two or three individuals. The team consists of the gunner, the assistant gunner (AG), and the ammunition bearer.
M60 tank. The M60 is an American second-generation main battle tank (MBT). It was officially standardized as the Tank, Combat, Full Tracked: 105-mm Gun, M60 in March 1959. [1] Although developed from the M48 Patton, the M60 tank series was never officially christened as a Patton tank. It has been called a "product-improved descendant" of the ...
Type A2 Helmet. Combat helmet. Vietnam. The PAVN's standard issue bump shell is a hard plastic replica of the PASGT helmets. It is used for training exercises and combat drill. Vietnamese Pith Helmet. Helmet. Vietnam. Traditional standard issue hard hat, used as the army's utility and barracks cover.
The Battle of Ia Drang (Vietnamese: Trận Ia Đrăng, [iə̯ ɗrăŋ]; in English / ˈ iː ə d r æ ŋ /) was the first major battle between the United States Army and the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), as part of the Pleiku Campaign conducted early in the Vietnam War, at the eastern foot of the Chu Pong Massif in the central highlands of Vietnam, in 1965.
Vietnam-era rifles used by the US military and allies. From top to bottom: M14, MAS 36, M16 (30 round magazine), AR-10, M16 (20 round magazine), M21, L1A1, M40, MAS 49 The Vietnam War involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Army ...
Powell was an M60 machine gunner with the Greenleaf group and was awarded the DSC. Son Tay: A Story of Success, VietnamGear.com, republished from Behind the Lines magazine, July 2005. The article asserts that an American-led MACV-SOG reconnaissance mission took place prior to Kingpin, that the troops in the secondary school were Chinese special ...
506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) Battles/wars. Vietnam War †. Awards. Medal of Honor. Purple Heart. Peter Matthew Guenette (January 4, 1948 – May 18, 1968) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration—the Medal of Honor —for his actions in the Vietnam War.
A U.S. Army Vietnam-era "free gunner" (c. 1966) is shown manning his duty position on a UH-1B/C helicopter gunship, with a bungee cord securing his M60 machine gun to the aircraft cabin doorway. The concept of the door gunner originated during the Vietnam War, when helicopters were first used in combat in