I noticed an interesting photo recently in a book I own called Special Forces at War, Illustrated History, Southeast Asia 1957-1975, By Shelby L. Stanton. On page 65 it shows a photo of Major David E. Shepherd Jr. holding an "Enfield Mark IV sniper rifle" while accompanying a Special Forces led "Ruff-Puff" patrol near Ben Luc in An Long Province 1964.
The rest of the men in the photo have U.S. M-1 or M-2 carbines.
Major Shepherd is listed as" a U.S. Operations Mission provincial representative and former commander of the Special Forces Training Group at Fort Bragg."
In the photo it looks like a scoped No.4T. It's hard to make out, but it looks like the more rounded .303 magazine on the rifle rather than the squared off 7.62 version.
It would be interesting to learn more of it's history in that war and how he came to be carrying it on patrol. Perhaps it came the route of the Australians in Vietnam as the book states a close relationship with them and U.S. Army Special Forces in that conflict.
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