Thursday, February 2, 2023

French troops being dropped off by a Piasecki H-21 “Flying Banana” in the Algerian mountains near Akfadou. June 1959

 


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  1. looks like a MAS 36 shouldered in the foreground?

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  2. Algeria and snow don't go together in my mind... shows all I know!

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    1. This site is like the new National Geographic showing us the rest of the world.

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  3. They were in Vietnam before us as well but politicians don't care and never learn.

    Bear Claw

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    1. Back then it was French Indochina

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  4. I think you're right about it being a MAS 36. The factory didn't make those with a safety (though some were gunsmithed, after-market) so I'm not quite sure what I'm seeing at the back end of the triggerguard.

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