L4 in Vietnam War

[Luis Bren]

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Searching Vietnam War pics found these...



Is a L4??

The album Trung Tâm Huấn Luyện Cán Bá»™ Xây Dá»±ng Nông Thôn - VÅ©ng TÃ*u | Flickr

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[ActionYobbo]

I see lots of 7.92 BREN MK1 in that picture

most likely 8mm BRENs from Inglis

[Paul S.]

I don't know who they are but they definitely are not Vietnamese despite the picture being from a Vietnamese language website.

[browningautorifle]

Chinese Inglis Brens...bags of them. Nice.

[ActionYobbo]

I don't know who they are but they definitely are not Vietnamese despite the picture being from a Vietnamese language website.

What do you base this on?
The equipment in all the pictures is correct for the time period around the end of WW2 when the Vietnamese fought the Japanese with American/Allied supplied equipment and the end of the first Indochina war that ended in 1954. It could be later even 1964 but with the lack of French weapons in the pictures its hard to say. French were supplied with American weapons mostly WW2 surplus and thats whats in most of the pictures.

[Brit plumber]

I count at least 18 mint Inglis 7.92mm guns. Ab Fab.

[Peter Laidler]

7.92mm Brens were definately there and captured because we had some ythat came down to the joint Intelligence Cell in Central Malaya. They were the first that I had seen (and heard of if I was truthful.....). The ones we had will have come from China, NVn, down the HCM trail down to the south to the VC there.

It is recorded fact that there were indeed some L4 Brens that went to Vietnam by the NZ Artillery as part of their kit and by default, as part of the (unused) ground CES of the tanks that went from Pukka.

[Vincent]

The pictures were taken in 1967 by renowned photo journalist Co Rentmeester. (Jakobus Willem "Co" Rentmeester) Google images by Co Rentmeester and you will those pictures.

He was wounded by a VC sniper.

[Luis Bren]

Vietnam DMZ 1966 - LIFE Photographer Co Rentmeester

[Luis Bren]

Another Bren in VN

1950 Cao Dai Army soldiers with machine gun in Tây Ninh