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To: Perseverando

Good pictures.

I got a kick out of the older guy checking out the M-60. I’d bet he was a M-60 gunner in Nam.


2 posted on 01/05/2020 9:07:03 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

“...I got a kick out of the older guy checking out the M-60. I’d bet he was a M-60 gunner in Nam.” [laplata, post 2]

If you are referring to the closeup, where a man wearing a tan shirt, black ball cap bearing an image of a classic-Greek style helmet and short sword above a five-point star, and spectacles, looking to the image’s right, holding a 20-dollar bill in his left hand resting on the wood butt of a mounted gun, with a linked belt of ammunition draped over the butt just ahead of his left little finger—

The gun is not an M60.

It appears to be an MG3. A modernized version of the MG42 used by the Wehrmacht during WW2. MG3s chambered 7.62 NATO and that is what the belted stuff looks like. Too short for 7.92 Mauser, MG42’s original chambering.

The image appears distorted, or the fellow is displaying a number of subscale replicas:

To his lower right, partially obscured by the blurry fingers of his right hand, is what looks like a US M1919A4 machine gun. In actuality, it’s comparable in size to an MG3, but looks smaller here.

Near the extreme left of the mage, to the right and behind the M1919A4, is a Soviet RPD. To its right sits an M1918A2 BAR. None of their relative sizes look right.


15 posted on 01/06/2020 4:33:39 PM PST by schurmann
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