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My father & I took my Vietnam War veteran grandfather to Washington D.C. several years ago for the 1st time for him to see The Vietnam War Memorial Wall. He was drafted in the late 1960s & he got injured by shrapnel from a land mine (in addition to getting shot), so he got sent home & received a Purple Heart. However, 6 of his buddies didn't make it back home, so before the trip he made a list of all of their names & where they were located on The Wall. As he found each on the wall, he got very emotional knowing that he managed to come home (though injured), get married, have 3 sons, & live another 50 years, but 6 of his friends didn't.
Well, I mean.. almost everyone knows it was there. It was even standard issue for a bit... I think this was meant more to show the ones you weren't expecting or didn't know about.
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 It was standard issue for ARVN forces for a time until M14's/16's became more readily available to them. For most of early Vietnam the US didn't feel the need for marksmen rifles until they started getting picked off by vietnamese snipers. They began using the M40 rifle and would also stop gap this by mounting optics on M2 .50 guns, which is how Hathcock got a longest confirmed kill record at 2,300 meters. The Garand in M1C/D sniper configuration was also used very rarely until the XM21 was tested and the M21 officially standardized in the very late war.
Something to note is that a lot of Soviet captured K98 rifles were refurbished and some rechaimbered to 7.62x54r. And also a lot of MAT-49s were rechaimbered to 7.62 (the pistol cartridge) by the Vietnamese. I wouldnt doubt some MP-40s were rechaimbered to 7.62 as well.
most submachine guns converted to 7,62x25 are still mostly MAT-49; any other SMG that got rechambered like that would end up being interviewed on Forgotten Weapon due to how rare they are
They just sent leftovers on trucks How is that a nightmare? There were were no long term plans for supply, no manufacturing, or repair Just use it all up toss it Get an ak and sks later on
ARVN used standard-issued USGII WWII weapons throughout the war like the M1 Garand, M1/M2 Carbine, and the Thompson but were often outgunned by VC and PAVN troops that were armed with AK automatic rifles. It wasn't until in the late 1960s when the ARVN began to issue new GI weapons such as M16 rifles but those were primarily geared towards elite units such as TQLC and BDQ as well as army units (1st Division) that regularly saw combat. By 1975, it was very common to see every South Vietnamese soldier with an M16 rifle.
Can't help but notice that B.A.R. was missing from the american weapons section. From what i've read they were popular amongst the Vietnamese on both sides.
One of the rarest guns of WW2 was a Japanese Type 100, a poor Japanese rebuild of a German MP28/35 in 8mm Nambu, rare in WW2, but used in Vietnam in many left over and even 'Frankengun' rebuilds found in Vietnam and China
My great-grandfather say that in the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the best gun he use is PPSH-41, because of that huge 1000 rpm and the recoil is very easy to control, he and his friend mostly use Lee-Enfield, Mat-49, PPSH-41 and the FM 24/29 lmg and even the M1 Garand (very rare), Thanks to my grandfather' sacrifices, we have the independence and peace we have today. Glory to Ho Chi Minh, Glory to the Vietnamese people
They were tough fighters and heroes, fighting against bigger enemies that were more technologically superior so that your young generation can finally have independence.
Mp40 made its First Appearance in Vietnam during The First Indochina War (1946-1954) and was used First by the French Colonial Forces due to surplus stocks.
I don’t believe I saw it, but the French honestly were also using a mix of weapons as well at the time. They had German P38 pistols, British Lee Enfeilds, & US M1 Carbines to fill out there ranks.
Dude... the AI literally stole that line from Lock and Load with R. Lee Ermy.... that line about going from Slinging stones to flying drones... he said something exactly like that evert episode.
The M-14 rifle debuted in 1959 and the AR system in 1961, so US Army Special Forces and Advisors used whatever was available then. The US didn't have a standard infantry rifle (like the AK for the Soviets) because of the focus on nukes and Sputnik in the 50s.
Hey simple history I was wondering if you could tell the history of The DMZ tree in Korea that all most started World War Ill, and how president Gerald R Ford responded in a way which was called appropriately nicknamed operation Paul Bunyan. If that's okay for a video for you guys can make if that's okay with you guys?
I remember in Far Cry 2, the Jackal, an arms dealer, was asked if his weapons were bought, sold, then rebought, and resold based on where conflicts were starting and ending. His response was, "They're not biodegradable. Only the dead are biodegradable."
At least there weren’t any soldiers there to say “Hans Get The Flamminwerfer!” Oh wait napalm exists 😓 “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”*the sounds of flames and screaming in ‘nam*
Provided you can still get ammunition in it's chambering, a gun is a gun is a gun, and arms dealers gonna arms deal. WW2 weapons are still being bought, sold, traded and finding their way into conflict zones 80 years later. Even in the less poor parts of the world when times get tough they start dragging them out of museums cause they still work. Even pre ww1 weaponry still sees use, for example, the Maxim gun being seen on a European battlefield in the 21st century wasn't on my 2020's bingo card, but here we are, because as it turns out the gun that changed infantry warfare forever and dictated movement and maneuver in the No Man's Land between the trenches of ww1 is still really good at controlling trenches, arguably better than modern machine guns in the role due to it's liquid cooled barrel making the only limit to sustained fire rate your ammunition supply and the barrels rifling.
i think it's worthy to note that all of the guns mentioned here appart from the japanese, chinese and soviet ones were in a very large part brought by the french who used them during the indo china war as they didn't had ennough domestic guns to give to all of theyr troops and the same goes for theyr unifirms and vehicules, my grandad served from 1946 to 1955 and he used both a brittish sten gun and later an american USM1 carbine, MP40 and luger/p38 and bren gun were also extremely common in french hands at that time.
Considering the veitnese captured Japanese weapons Given weapons Captured French weapons Start of the veitnam war and so often these were captured by the Americans
It doesn't matter how old they are, these guns will always be used whether it's out of choice or necessity and be found in the hands of several combatants and Vietnam and Ukraine are two of the most noteworthy examples.
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BRUH!
When I Play Conflict Vietnam.
I Used To Used PPSH41.
The original voice will always be better. We joined for the beginnings, not the change. Don't ruin this channel like so many others before you
Gun is a gun
As long as it still works
They start blasting
“But sir, we have no ammo”
@@vincentxu4709 "my son, you are the ammo"
@@lephong0101 “But you too”
My father & I took my Vietnam War veteran grandfather to Washington D.C. several years ago for the 1st time for him to see The Vietnam War Memorial Wall. He was drafted in the late 1960s & he got injured by shrapnel from a land mine (in addition to getting shot), so he got sent home & received a Purple Heart. However, 6 of his buddies didn't make it back home, so before the trip he made a list of all of their names & where they were located on The Wall. As he found each on the wall, he got very emotional knowing that he managed to come home (though injured), get married, have 3 sons, & live another 50 years, but 6 of his friends didn't.
That’s sad rip his friends
WWII guns will always be used no matter the conflict.
Agreed
Yep - if the ammo is still available, and the guns are still working, it'll always be used, no matter how obscure or old they are.
I agree
What about ww1
@@Playing096Lee enfield rifles and mosin nagants are still being used today
You forgot about the M1-Garand and the M1 Carbine
Well, I mean.. almost everyone knows it was there. It was even standard issue for a bit... I think this was meant more to show the ones you weren't expecting or didn't know about.
@@wayneigoe6722It wasn't standard issue
@@wallythewondercorncake8657 It was standard issue for ARVN forces for a time until M14's/16's became more readily available to them. For most of early Vietnam the US didn't feel the need for marksmen rifles until they started getting picked off by vietnamese snipers. They began using the M40 rifle and would also stop gap this by mounting optics on M2 .50 guns, which is how Hathcock got a longest confirmed kill record at 2,300 meters. The Garand in M1C/D sniper configuration was also used very rarely until the XM21 was tested and the M21 officially standardized in the very late war.
@@wayneigoe6722so was the 1911, but it is in the video. I think they just forgot.
@@VictoriaCortes1717 The M1911A1 was mentioned in the video
Yooo I'm finally here early. My grandpa had actually found a thompson after a firefight"
thats sick asf bro, does it still work?
@@cartier7761wish we still Had it. It got stolen from his apartment when he was out on his honeymoon.
Something to note is that a lot of Soviet captured K98 rifles were refurbished and some rechaimbered to 7.62x54r.
And also a lot of MAT-49s were rechaimbered to 7.62 (the pistol cartridge) by the Vietnamese. I wouldnt doubt some MP-40s were rechaimbered to 7.62 as well.
most submachine guns converted to 7,62x25 are still mostly MAT-49;
any other SMG that got rechambered like that would end up being interviewed on Forgotten Weapon due to how rare they are
What ever happened to the old voice of Simple History l?
They take turns. It seems
I'm still here! 😋 Can't a guy get a day off?! 😉
@@ChrisKane-hope to see u back!
Not all videos always voiced by the same guy
@@ChrisKane-your voice is ICONIC.
There were WW1 Renault FT-17s used in Iraq
I bet they annihilated Abrams to pieces 😂
Anywhere I can read about this?
Afghan too
@@Khmaryappels2with his 37mm ww1 era cannon, the powerfull ft will OBLITERATE abrams!!
Weren't they only used to pull things around though?
Isn’t it weird to think that some US soldiers would’ve been shot at by guns that were previously used by some of their Allies?
Their allies even sold it on black market
Mostly small arms, AT gun, mortar
@@dangminh5330 yeah
The M1 Carbine as well, to the point that it is used by both sides during the war
@@rps215 true
@@rps215Yeah, just like the Korean war, the Chinese were beating the Americans with their guns
Some guns simply never age.
AK47
@@raven1462 AK and AR-15 Platforms simply can never be replaced
On point@@hx20games77
@@hx20games77What about ppsh?
WWII guns will be used forever no matter the conflict
That’s if you can still find the parts, ammo, magazines to keep them running
It makes sense really, there is almost no downside to having useable extra weapons in war
Like the old saying goes, “If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.”
I heard about WW2 weapons being used in Vietnam from Mark Felton's productions
The mispronunciation of Degtyaryov had me xD
DEGTYARVYARV
also Kuomintang
That was a brain fart I swear to God lol
Logistical nightmare
Classic WW2 weapons, but used in the Vietnam War
But all you got
They just sent leftovers on trucks
How is that a nightmare?
There were were no long term plans for supply, no manufacturing, or repair
Just use it all up toss it
Get an ak and sks later on
@@jamesgoldring1052 dont think it was that easy, that they have ready sks and aks for everyone waiting
@@kermitttt it was a stop gap thou
They weren't manufacturing replacement ammunition, just using up old stocks of it
ARVN used standard-issued USGII WWII weapons throughout the war like the M1 Garand, M1/M2 Carbine, and the Thompson but were often outgunned by VC and PAVN troops that were armed with AK automatic rifles. It wasn't until in the late 1960s when the ARVN began to issue new GI weapons such as M16 rifles but those were primarily geared towards elite units such as TQLC and BDQ as well as army units (1st Division) that regularly saw combat. By 1975, it was very common to see every South Vietnamese soldier with an M16 rifle.
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Can't help but notice that B.A.R. was missing from the american weapons section. From what i've read they were popular amongst the Vietnamese on both sides.
That's correct. Despite being heavy, clunky and goofy, BAR was loved by VC guerrillas and ARVN alike but they despised the Thompson lol
Oh wow, the new narrator is not good. No offense, but he sounds like a 35-year-old man doing an impression of a snarky teenager.
This is really no surprise since the maxim hmg is being used in Ukraine today.
It's true that Ukraine is quite desperate. Although, a machine gun is a machine gun
@@bryananderson3772 true they have mounted 4 together on a bipod. Two at the bottom two on top🤣🤣🤣
@@monkeyspanker-r7gI mean, 7.62x54r is extremely common in both Ukraine and Russian caches, and the guns work, so why not?
@@clangaman2810 it's just weird seeing a red dot on a gun made before the mosin was invented
For the Thompson my grandfather said he saw a commander have in
My grandfather was a transport on a truck
Humans in WW2 and Vietnam are physically the same. A gun that can kill a person in WW2 can kill a person in Vietnam.
the new narration quite sucks
Yeah I prefer the OG guy
Yeah me too
Was actually going to ask if this is an A.I. voice.
One of the rarest guns of WW2 was a Japanese Type 100, a poor Japanese rebuild of a German MP28/35 in 8mm Nambu, rare in WW2, but used in Vietnam in many left over and even 'Frankengun' rebuilds found in Vietnam and China
Add P08 Lugers to the NVA/VC sidearms, also saw service and was captured to a certain degree according to some veterans.
WWII guns will be used forever no matter the conflict
WWII weapons are still seeing action in Ukraine. Makes sense seeing as how they often made millions and millions of these firearms.
No matter what world war you will fight, you will always find weapons coming from another world wars
M2 Browning: that’s cute
My great-grandfather say that in the battle of Dien Bien Phu, the best gun he use is PPSH-41, because of that huge 1000 rpm and the recoil is very easy to control, he and his friend mostly use Lee-Enfield, Mat-49, PPSH-41 and the FM 24/29 lmg and even the M1 Garand (very rare), Thanks to my grandfather' sacrifices, we have the independence and peace we have today. Glory to Ho Chi Minh, Glory to the Vietnamese people
They were tough fighters and heroes, fighting against bigger enemies that were more technologically superior so that your young generation can finally have independence.
your grandpa an OG
PPSH in a close range jungle ambush must of gone hard ngl
7:10
Ian McCollum: *happy noises
Also, you show the Type 99 light machine gun (0:44, 9:20), but don't talk about it?
I notice something. The STG-44 saw Combat in Vietnam war..
4:00 dieghtghhtghtghov xd
Dapyapdyov
Even after all these years WW2 weapons are still used today
Mp40 made its First Appearance in Vietnam during The First Indochina War (1946-1954) and was used First by the French Colonial Forces due to surplus stocks.
Czechoslovakia, China, USA, USSR and Britain are multinational states, not nations.
Recently added a Mosin Nagant to my Vietnam War Collection. Not the prettiest of the bunch but she's the only one with that battlefield pickup look.
The Thompson was first mass produced in 1921 not 1928
I want to see what how they found a B190 in the Russian Lake
World War II? Guns are treasures to the British empires
1:29 nah why bro doin that💀
Chill man hes just FEELIN it
@@unamedjeff3478yes my guy
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I love these videos 😍
In the movie Danger Close one of the enemy soldiers is using a Stgw 44.
We Were Soldiers also featured a DP28 and an MG34.
STG-44s were seen in use in Syria in 2012.
Vietnam is mini WW2.
Korean War: Uh hello????
I think the Vietnam war is more like an ww2’s oldest and aggressive son
I don’t believe I saw it, but the French honestly were also using a mix of weapons as well at the time. They had German P38 pistols, British Lee Enfeilds, & US M1 Carbines to fill out there ranks.
“We kept looking for a guy named Charlie, but we never could find him” -Forrest Gump
I'm missing VZ58 from Czechoslovakia in the list. There had been exported around 10,000 units a year between 1969 to 1975.
Lead is lead.
Do Documentary of Soviet IS-3 Heavy Tank pls?
Dude... the AI literally stole that line from Lock and Load with R. Lee Ermy.... that line about going from Slinging stones to flying drones... he said something exactly like that evert episode.
All conventional weapons are essentially improvised ww2 weapons. Nothing radically different.
The German broomhandle pistol also had numerous Chinese copies, some even chambered with .45 ACP by some warlords.
The M-14 rifle debuted in 1959 and the AR system in 1961, so US Army Special Forces and Advisors used whatever was available then. The US didn't have a standard infantry rifle (like the AK for the Soviets) because of the focus on nukes and Sputnik in the 50s.
Ok call it a hunch but someone played Rising Storm 2😁
My cousins husband has a picture of himself getting his fist of two Bronze Stars with Valor. The general is carrying a Hi Power
Hey simple history I was wondering if you could tell the history of The DMZ tree in Korea that all most started World War Ill, and how president Gerald R Ford responded in a way which was called appropriately nicknamed operation Paul Bunyan. If that's okay for a video for you guys can make if that's okay with you guys?
Didn’t know WW2 weapons were used during the Vietnam war, call of duty black ops didn’t mention that.
Every guns no matter how old is it. If the gun shoot and kills then it still does it job
43 minutes ago to 47 minutes ago 😅😮
I remember in Far Cry 2, the Jackal, an arms dealer, was asked if his weapons were bought, sold, then rebought, and resold based on where conflicts were starting and ending. His response was, "They're not biodegradable. Only the dead are biodegradable."
WWII was only twenty years before heavy US involvement in Vietnam.
WWII were not "antique".
Imagine get smocked by the same MG42 during Vietnam war that smocked your father at Ohama beach years before
At least there weren’t any soldiers there to say “Hans Get The Flamminwerfer!” Oh wait napalm exists 😓 “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”*the sounds of flames and screaming in ‘nam*
Vietcong Have MG-42 After 1969
Like always on this channel, ARVN is not depicted in a video about the Vietnam War
The Vietnam People's Army also had some 88mm flak guns.
Provided you can still get ammunition in it's chambering, a gun is a gun is a gun, and arms dealers gonna arms deal. WW2 weapons are still being bought, sold, traded and finding their way into conflict zones 80 years later. Even in the less poor parts of the world when times get tough they start dragging them out of museums cause they still work. Even pre ww1 weaponry still sees use, for example, the Maxim gun being seen on a European battlefield in the 21st century wasn't on my 2020's bingo card, but here we are, because as it turns out the gun that changed infantry warfare forever and dictated movement and maneuver in the No Man's Land between the trenches of ww1 is still really good at controlling trenches, arguably better than modern machine guns in the role due to it's liquid cooled barrel making the only limit to sustained fire rate your ammunition supply and the barrels rifling.
i think it's worthy to note that all of the guns mentioned here appart from the japanese, chinese and soviet ones were in a very large part brought by the french who used them during the indo china war as they didn't had ennough domestic guns to give to all of theyr troops and the same goes for theyr unifirms and vehicules, my grandad served from 1946 to 1955 and he used both a brittish sten gun and later an american USM1 carbine, MP40 and luger/p38 and bren gun were also extremely common in french hands at that time.
Considering the veitnese captured Japanese weapons
Given weapons
Captured French weapons
Start of the veitnam war and so often these were captured by the Americans
I'm reminded of Saddam Hussein handing out bowling shoes.
Simple history is my favourite history channel for years now😢😊
Vietnam is 20 years from WWII so there were still plenty of WWII small arms
what makes this funny and aswell as fascinating is that they still have them and most are pretty much still well maintained
I like how he said the weapons are like washed up Hollywood Action Stars who come back for one last rodeo.
It doesn't matter how old they are, these guns will always be used whether it's out of choice or necessity and be found in the hands of several combatants and Vietnam and Ukraine are two of the most noteworthy examples.
7:50 it's actually Copy of Model 24 instead of 33
F in the chat for anyone who had to take a C96 into combat in the 1960’s and 70’s
My boi simple history has definetly been playing some rising storm 2
5k Views? This will get more views soon.
Can say good video here and really a blast from the past with this.
At least France army and US army lost the war in Vietnam war😅
Forgot the M1 carbine used by advisors
2:00 Revenge of the German weapons
Em one nine three eight mortar, adopted in 1939
when you cant produce ur own guns. u use any guns found
Ma Deuce will keep serving until Rapture.
I mean it makes sense they're 30 years old at the time so....
Put a number count on how many times he says war
Ussr had a lot of ww2 guns sent to vietnam
These videos are fucking violent
One can see what is gonna happen from miles away 4:21
It just shows how ahead of their time these guns were.
Lesson: Don't leave weapons to the enemy to use
As Long as It Fires...It Works
Rising Storm 2, anyone?
6:31 subtitles: World War III
"Free world forces " 😂😅