Essentially a variant of the Soviet PPSh-41, the K-50M drew upon Hanoi’s experience with captured French weapons, especially the MAT-49 submachine gun.
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Daily Quiz for November 17, 2011
At his request, upon his death in 1828 at the age of 31, this composer was buried beside Beethoven.
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Book Review – Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency From Ford to Obama, by Marvin and Deborah Kalb
Some historical perspective on the different ways that “Vietnam” has influenced the Oval Office
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Daily Quiz for November 16, 2011
This actor is the only civilian ever to receive a funeral with full police honors in Los Angeles.
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Vietnam Vets Screened Footage for “Vietnam in HD” Film Project
A small group of Vietnam vets joined a film production crew as “interns” last […]
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Nov. 17 – Dec. 10: Connecticut artist exhibits 242 Vietnam war casualty portraits inspired by 1969 Life magazine story
The Bridgeport University Gallery in Connecticut will be exhibiting Peter Konsterlie‘s 242 portraits of […]
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Book Review: Broken Bodies, Shattered Minds / A Medical Odysssey From Vietnam to Afghanistan
Spells out the medical consequences of war, from the Civil War to today’s fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, where more veterans are surviving but with more serious wounds
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Daily Quiz for November 15, 2011
The Rus’-Byzantine War of 1043 essentially consisted of a failed naval raid on this city.
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Book Review – In the Company of Marines: A Surgeon Remembers Vietnam, by James O. Finnegan, M.D.
A young surgeon experienced the war in Vietnam intently, and his poignant stories shed light on the reality of a doctor’s war
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Book Review – The 14-Hour War: Valor on Koh Tang and the Recapture of the SS Mayaguez, by James E. Wise Jr. and Scott Baron
The ingredients that combined to create the Mayaguez disaster, the “last battle of the Vietnam War,” following the fall of Saigon