Vietnam was a gun collector's disneyland. I was a combat engineer so a lot of the captured useless ordnance was passed our way for the big boom solution. Saw WWII hardware from WWII from France, Germany, US, USSR, China, and N.Korea. We traded that stuff among us like eight year olds did marbles. Two AKs and a Deg MG with three full drums for a Mat 49? How about three M1 carbines and an 03 for a MG42? A M3A1 with four clips and 500 rounds for a 91 sniper? A Garand for a K98?When I was attached doing demo work with a rome plow land clearing company we wouldn't even report the bunkers found cause we'd have to work our a** off digging all the stuff out for counting just to blow it up later, found out it was easier just to blow it up in the bunker and run the dozers over what was left. Never saw any Lugers.
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