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Sometimes I'm amazed we didn't send troops to Vietnam with something chambered for .45-70...
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Well, the RVN was equipped with Korean-War issue M-1 rifles, M-2 Carbines, BARs, M-1919A4s, M-1917A1s and 3.5-inch bazookas. These were used right up to the fall of South Vietnam.
On the VC/NVA side, MAT-49s, MAS-36s, other hardware captured from the French, not to mention battlefield captures...from the Japanese at the end of WWII.
Captured weapons also included a variety of civilian bolt-action, lever action and even rolling block rifles.
So .45-70 would not amaze me at all!