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Cold Chisel: 'Khe Sanh'

(Contributor: John Allan, Bridgetown Western Australia,July 2024) I left my heart to the sappers round Khe SanhAnd I sold my soul with my cigarettes to the black market manI’ve had the Vietnam cold turkeyFrom the ocean to the Silver CityAnd it’s only other vets could understand. I first met Col when we moved here to Bridgetown in 2000. I had worked with his partner Bob in the nineties when I…

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Vietnam War Weaponry

United States-allied forces weaponry:

most of the allied forces were armed with U.S. weapons such as the M1 Garand, M1 Carbine, M14 and M16.

- M1 Garand: The Garand is a .30-06 caliber semi automatic rifle, which saw limited service during the war. The rifle only had 8 shots in a clip. The Garand  was designed for simple assembly and disassembly to facilitate field maintenance. Ejection of an empty clip would make create the distinctive “ping” sound.

PING SOUND VIDEO

- M14: Officially the United States Rifle, Caliber 7.62 mm, M14 is an American select-fire battle rifle, it was the standard issue rifle for the US Military until it was replaced by the M16 in 1969. The gun came equipped with a stock to adapt to the damp jungle environments of Vietnam.

- M16: Officially designated as the Rifle, Caliber 5.56 mm, M16 is a family of military rifles for the United States military. The original M16 rifle was a 5.56mm automatic rifle with a 20-round magazine. The weapon was first used in the jungle warfare of the Vietnam War, with the M16A1 replacing the M14 as standard issue rifle in 1969. This version of the M16 included a 30-round magazine and a chrome-plated bore.

During the early stages of the war, the Viet Cong were equipped with crudely made copies of already existing weapons such as the Thompson Submachine Gun and Shotguns made from galvanised pipes, but were later reequipped with the soviet AK47.

The M2 Flamethrower also saw action within the Vietnam war, but later become obsolete with the arrival of flamethrower tanks.

Napalm was also used heavily in the Vietnem war as forces used it for its tactical and psychological effects. Napalm is a incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a violent petrochemical, and is basically a sticky version of fire,  these traits make it extremely effective (and controversial) in the anti-structure and antipersonnel role. It was very controversial as the Napalm effected the life of many innocents civilians and has now its use against civilians has been banned.

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The Vietnam War (Jack)

the Vietnam War is one of the documentary the tell very clear about all what happened during the time. the documentary telling what happened before the American involed in helping the Vietnamese. The video is telling how Uncle Ho travel around the world with an idea of helping the Vietnam become independent country. we can see that how decide of Uncle Ho and what he will does. by the times, after he got a higher posittion in the sociality, he decide o meet up in a big party when the president of France and France gorverment doing conversation relate to the world sittuation. Then The movie also talk about the Japan during the time that trying to flight the Vietnam, and how the Viet-Minh and Viet-American created. The movie also gave us an small part of how the Vietnam got invade by French because the reason is that the Vietnam accident kill one of the American military leader. Then it showed how Uncle Ho went to France to having a conversation with the France goverment. I think that the France is very smart by divide the goverment and one of it is invade the Vietnam, and the other one is helping Vietnem. However, the helping is not that good becasue the helping side don’t want to hurt their own country. The movie also showed how the Viet-American community is helping the Vietnam citizen out of starvation by fight the Japan storage space and gave the citizen rice. The movie also show hơ the American dropping atomic bomb on Japan. I think the action of dropping the atomic bomb on Japan is come with two reason. First is that the American can stop the growth of Japan so the America can be a top country, not Japan. Second, the America is helping the Vietnam and stop the world war 2. So the world will think that the America is a good country that trying to help the whole world. The Movie is also showing the time that the Vietnam is declade independent by the voise of Uncle Ho.