M1 Rifle in use in Vietnam - Photo

[Bob Seijas]

The Summer GCA Journal will have a photo of a South Vietnamese Ranger with a Garand in combat. We also did an article on a raid by a US LRRP team that hit a Cong house and recaptured an H&R M1 among the weapons. More recently, we had a great article on "The Last POW," a feature on two M1s in the museum in Hanoi. The point is that there were a lot of M1s in Nam, and most were left there.

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[Rick Cummelin]

The point is that there were a lot of M1s in Nam, and most were left there.

Yep, the US provided tons of "support" to South Vietnam, including lots & lots of small arms.

I'm sure you remember Bob, that a bunch of the CMP M1Ds had been rebuilt at Tooele Depot in Utah and had tags inside the box(es) indicating that the rifles were destined to be shipped to SEA (South East Asia, a.k.a. Vietnam). Thank goodness they didn't ship them over there.

Can't forget that in the early days of the "unreliable" M16, lots of GIs preferred the M14, the M1 Garand or even the Thompson to an M16.