M16's in Vietnam museum pics

[Johnny in Texas]

I thought these were worth posting from war museum in Saigon

[NJacob]

I visited this museum in 1994 while on a trip with 165 others. We were the largest group of Americans that had come into the country since the end of the war. Their Immigration people at the airport were a little jumpy and asked many questions but the rest of the visit was great. People on the streets were very friendly and curious. This museum had a lot of American arms on display as well as some vehicles, one tank, on the outside. Very interesting visit. Also visited the former palace of the president of Vietnam, the one in the newsreels where the NVA tank came through the fence. Had lunch there. Then it was called Reunification Hall.

[Johnny in Texas]

I good friend was thier during the war as a Army doctor. He went back around the same time you dd on sort of a humanitarian visit. He said he was treated well. he also told me they made no bones about how they won the American War. We travelle from Hanoi to Saigon by van and the North is still in the 1600's outside the cities I got to shoot an M-60 loaded with LC 74 ammo at a range at the Chu Chi tunnel area and went down in a rat hole. Those GI's that did tunnel work were very brave or crazy or both.

[da gimp]

TY for posting these pix sir. One of my sister-in-laws is VietNamese, but is now an American citizen. Her dad, a former ARVN officer was re-educated for years after the fall of the RVN. My brother & she finally got her family to move to the US, good folks.

da gimp

[stars-n-bars]

Did any of those M-16's have the triangular flash hider on them? Looks to me like they were all the later round one.

[Johnny in Texas]

None of these had the prong flash hider.

[stars-n-bars]

Makes me wonder where they all went to? Maybe the NVA didn't consider them worthy of being a museun piece. Or maybe we didn't give up as many during their day. Or worse case senario they all went to Mexico.

[Rick the Librarian]

A lot of them were turning up in Nicarauga (sp.) and El Salvador during the early 1980s. Captured ones were i.d-ed to those lost in Vietnam.

[Shooter5]

The Vietnamese are one tough bunch. Any country that fought off the brutal Japanese occupation, the return and oushter of the French, the American's and then the Chinese is a worthy oppoenent. Time to move on and continue to find our common interests.

[lyman]

[QUOTE=Johnny in Texas;113415Those GI's that did tunnel work were very brave or crazy or both.[/QUOTE]


I have a good friend that was a tunnel rat, I would say both,

this guy is all of 125lbs soaking wet, and fearless,