Stevens 77E In Photos From Vietnam

[oldfoneguy]

These are recently discovered photos of my wife's uncle Michael playing around with a friend while in-country in Vietnam circa 1967. He's holding a Stevens Model 77E. A closeup of the butt pad reveals the distinctive T pattern.

He was a little guy and did tunnel work whenever they came across one. He was awarded a bronze star for saving his squad 2/67 when they came under heavy fire in a rice paddy. The M79 gunner was hit so he made his way over to him retrieved the weapon and cleared out the treeline single handedly. Sadly he came home from the war deeply disturbed, from today's perspective he was suffering from PTSD. While living with my wife's family upon returning home he had some type of unknown incident while traveling on the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan that caused him to jump in front of a rolling train only 3 months after coming home in 1968.

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