Captured WW2 Weapons in Vietnam

[mrclark303]

Ah, those J79's, mobile smoke stacks, but that cold war veteran is still earning it's keep across the world today.

One of the really poiniant things I kept seeing were the Helmets of the poor shot down and captured aircrew. I can't imagine what it must have been like drifting down on a parachute deep into routepack 6 with little to no hope of extraction.... terrifying.

Back to the subject at hand, I did see a few SMLE'S in official collections (WW1 British examples two), this surprised me to see such a familiar old friend so far from home.

That said, I guess Britain was responsible for French Indo China in the immediate aftermath of the war, that and the Japanese must have captured huge quantities of them in Burma and Singapore.