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My great grand dad. I don't have a clue what the guns are.

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After my Grandfather passed a couple of years ago I got a photo album with about 60 pictures that he took or are of him from his time in Korea.  Here's a sampling:  

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Well...OK. Though this little tale isn't nearly as embarrassing nor foolish as some of the childish stunts my same age cousin and I pulled back then. We were about 9 years old, and like kids of t

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French Resistance fighters, with OSS agent, anticipates action against the Nazis, August 1944

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Looks like an M-60 machinegun.

Weighed 23 and a 1/2 lbs

Had to have an assistant gunner who carried the spare barrel & a can of 7.62mm ammo

Was told that the average life expectancy of an M-60 gunner was about 8 seconds during a fire-fight. I have no idea how they calculated such a thing.

 

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21 hours ago, Frog4aday said:

Looks like an M-60 machinegun.

Weighed 23 and a 1/2 lbs

Had to have an assistant gunner who carried the spare barrel & a can of 7.62mm ammo

Was told that the average life expectancy of an M-60 gunner was about 8 seconds during a fire-fight. I have no idea how they calculated such a thing.

 

That's what the photo was labeled and was in Viet Nam, I wasn't sure so I didn't label the post.

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