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Forward twin 5”/38 caliber gun turrets aboard Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer USS O’Brien at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, 26 Aug 1961. Note the Hedgehog launchers behind the turrets.	40mm Bofors mounts at the bow of French carrier La Fayette, 1962	Arisaka Type 38 rifle as seen in figure 3 of US Army Medical Department publication 'Wound Ballistics', 1962	Nambu Type 14 pistol as seen in figure 1 of US Army Medical Department publication 'Wound Ballistics', 1962

Type 100 submachine gun as seen in figure 2 of US Army Medical Department publication 'Wound Ballistics', 1962	Type 96 light machine gun as seen in US Army Medical Department's Wound Ballistics publication, 1962	US Army CH-21C Shawnee helicopter transporting M101 105mm howitzer, circa 1960s	Men of Royal New Zealand Artillery carrying out a fire mission, Vietnam, late 1960s

American helicopter lowering M101 105mm howitzer during the construction of a mountin-top fire base in Vietnam, 1 Jun 1968; the Marine in foreground was with US 3rd Marine Division	Men of US 3rd Marine Division preparing to load a round into their M101 105mm howitzer, Vietnam, 1 Jun 1968	Men of US 3rd Marine Division setting up two M101 105mm howitzers during the construction of a mountain-top fire base, Vietnam, 1 Jun 1968	American troops taking delivery of a M101 105mm howitzer with ammunition pallet while a CH-47 Chinook helicopter landed another, Vietnam, 1968

Vietnamese soldiers with M1 Carbines and US special forces soldiers with M16 rifles, Vietnam, Sep 1968	Vietnamese Navy Chief of Naval Operations Commodore Tran Van Chon and US Navy Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Thomas Moorer inspecting Vietnamese sailors armed with M1 Garand rifles, Vietname, Sep 1	Canister containing a 9-foot roll of film for the Fairchild K-20 aerial camera, part of the Imperial War Museum collection.	Fairchild K-20 aerial camera, part of the Imperial War Museum collection.

Female volunteer fighters of Poeple's Self Defense Force with M1 Carbines, Kien Dien, 50 kilometers north of Saigon, Vietnam, 1961-1972	M114 howitzer of C Battery, 5th Battalion, US 42nd Artillery Regiment at Fire Suppor Base Thu Thua, Vietnam, date unknown, photo 1 of 2	M114 howitzer of C Battery, 5th Battalion, US 42nd Artillery Regiment at Fire Suppor Base Thu Thua, Vietnam, date unknown, photo 2 of 2	Line drawing of the Mark 10 torpedo from the United States Navy’s publication “A Brief History of U.S. Navy Torpedo Development,” 1978.