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VIETNAM WAR FEMALE VIETCONG CARRYING M16 TAKEN IN 1972 4

VIETNAM WAR FEMALE VIETCONG CARRYING M16 TAKEN IN 1972 4" X 6" SAME DAY SHIPPING

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    VIETNAM WAR FEMALE VIETCONG CARRYING M16 TAKEN IN 1972 4" X 6" SAME DAY SHIPPING
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    Here you have a 4" X 6" Photo on Premium High Gloss Kodak Paper of
    Lam Thi Dep (Dep means beautiful in Vietnamese), the picture was taken in 1972 at Soc Trang Province by Vietnamese journalist Minh Truong. She was 18 at the time and she’s wielding an M-16, the standard issue American soldier’s rifle. Usually this type of photos were taken for propaganda purposes. North Vietnamese women were deeply involved at all levels of the military campaign throughout the war, especially at the business end, fighting against the American-led forces in the jungle.
    How come she’s carrying an American rifle? The Viet Cong forces were very successful at acquiring and using American made arms, which led directly to most of their big successes in the early to mid-60s. The weapons weren’t necessarily from dead American soldiers. Remember, the US was propping up Diem’s South Vietnamese government, and pumping weapons into his ally extremely flawed and corrupt army. South Vietnamese local garrisons meant to protect rural areas from Viet Cong influence often simply gave arms and ammunition to the local Viet
    cong
    to avoid being slaughtered.
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