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'03 Springfield Picture of the Day
KOREAN WAR
5th Marine Sniper in Punchbowl
M1903A1/Unertl, 1951
Another difference in sniper action between the USMC and the Army was that Marine scout-sniper teams often had a BAR for a support weapon. In street fighting, the BAR automatic fire would flush the enemy out, and the sniper would finish him off.
East of the Hwachon Reservoir a key segment of the Kansas Line ran through the southern rim of the Punchbowl, on its way to the coastal town of Kojin-ni, five milies above Kansong. This section of the line lay well above Route 24, so both X Corps and ROK I Corps could use that road as their MSR, and also receive supplies through the port at Kansong.
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Last edited by CapnJohn; 04-20-2009 at 08:02 PM.
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04-20-2009 07:58 PM
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iv seen this pic before, notice the Lyman Ak setting on the A4???
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That picture could have been taken in the Que Son Mountains west of Danang. Looks the same, includng the sand bagged fighting post. I sat in just such a position for countless hours, looking down on whatever highway that was that ran to Danang. We had it indexed to a "T".
Range was very hard to estimate in the mountains.
Jim
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Chuck,
You are right, that is an A4, not a A1 Unertl. I am not so sure that is a Marine either. If you blow it up and look at the rifle shadow, you will see it is a C stocked rifle.
Jim
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dont think it snowed much west of DaNang, look at the far hill side,
a bit of the white stuff is spread all over..looks like Colorado,s flat top area. or closer to Rifle Co..
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come to think about it, if i remember right that picture is actually bigger, and a Browning Machine gun sits right next to the guy, just right of the binoculars.
i cant think of what book i saw that picture in. old age aint fer sissys
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I ate a couple of dog sandwiches in RVN, and years later, I helped eat a Black Lab (Rambo the Rig Dog somebody shot - we BBQ'ed him). The sandwiches came from the Skivy Girls we escorted to and from home from the FLC OC. I was temporarily on light duty at China Beach for about 10 days due to a non-combat injury (105 breach block closed on my left hand), and I was assigned the light duty of being the turret gunner on the duece and a half that transported the girls back and forth. I had a 50 cal I knew squat about. I did get some neat pictures of Danang City that show the squalor in which the Vietnamese lived. I also saw one of the really big fuel tanks at Monkey Mountain (I think - I never really knew where I was) hit by a rocket and catch fire, and got a neat picture of the fire teams trying to put it out.
Got to play "Jungle Rules" football on China (Red) Beach. We had to hide the injuried for a few days. It was just a little rougher than "Jungle Rules" volleyball. I will NEVER forget my first Marine Corps "Jungle Rules" volleyball game. Like a real DA, I ran up to the net to hit a ball and the guy across from me ran towards me and kicked me in the cajones so hard I laid out the rest of the game. You don't play the net in those games unless you are wearing a cup!
Did you ever go to one of the bars that served snake blood in your drink?
Jim
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