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  1. Battle damaged QF 20 Pounder Gun Barrel from Centurion Tank ARN 169017 : 1 Armoured Regiment

    Technology

    Maker: Royal Ordnance Factory

    Battle damaged QF 20 Pounder gun barrel from a Centurion Tank. The barrel, which is not fitted with a breech block, has a prominent fume extractor at its midpoint and traces of khaki paint. The riflin...

    RELAWM40871

  2. Chicom Type 56 Assault Rifle

    Technology

    Chicom Type 56 Assault Rifle. Pressed metal construction with a wooden butt. The receiver is stamped 66 within a triangle and the serial number. The top handguard, lower fore end, magazine, folding ba...

    RELAWM40827

  3. Chicom Type 56 Light Machine Gun : North Vietnamese Forces

    Technology

    Chicom Type 56 Light Machine Gun. This is a Chinese copy of the Soviet Degtyaryov light machine gun model 1944 (the RPD - Ruchnoy Pulemyot Degtyaryova) . Machined and pressed metal construction recei...

    RELAWM40791

  4. Chicom Type 54 Pistol Holster : North Vietnamese Forces

    Technology

    Brown plastic pistol holster for a Chicom Type 54 pistol. It has a front pouch with a press stud containing a spare magazine and two loops on the side for a cleaning rod. The top flap is secured by a ...

    REL27493.002

  5. Chicom Type 54 Pistol : North Vietnamese Forces

    Technology

    Chicom Type 54 semi automatic pistol. Top slide stamped with Chinese characters, the serial number, 66 and 1964. The black plastic grips have a five pointed star in the centre.

    REL27493.001

  6. Chicom Type 56 (RPG 2) Rocket Launcher : North Vietnamese Forces

    Technology

    Maker: State Arsenal, China

    Chicom Type 56 (RPG 2) Rocket Launcher or Anti Tank Grenade Launcher. Tubular construction and painted black having a centre section covered with a brown fibre heat shield held on by two steel bands. ...

    RELAWM40081

  7. Mauser Kar 98k Rifle : North Vietnamese Forces

    Technology

    Mauser Kar 98k bolt action rifle. Originally a blued and polished machined steel action with a turned down bolt arm. Full laminated wood stock that has a steel packing disc in the butt and pressed ste...

    RELAWM40801

  8. M1 Garand Rifle : North Vietnamese Military Forces

    Technology

    M1 Garand semi automatic rifle. The receiver is marked US RIFLE CAL.30 MI SPRINGFIELD ARMORY and the serial number. It has a full wood stock and the butt has a unit embarcation marking of green yellow...

    REL/03041

  9. 122 mm DKZ-B Rocket Launcher and Stand : Viet Cong

    Technology

    Viet Cong 122 mm DKZ-B Rocket Launcher and Stand.

    RELAWM40959

  10. Model 1917 Enfield Rifle : North Vietnamese Forces

    Technology

    Model 1917 Enfield bolt action rifle. Receiver stamped U.S. MODEL OF 1917 EDDYSTONE and the serial number. Barrel stamped near the muzzle 4-18. One piece full wood stock with a single finger groove to...

    RELAWM40799

  11. Model 1917 Enfield Rifle : North Vietnamese Military Forces

    Technology

    Model 1917 Enfield bolt action rifle. Receiver stamped U.S. MODEL OF 1917 EDDYSTONE and the serial number. Full wood stock with a single finger groove to each side of the fore arm and missing the top ...

    RELAWM40831

  12. Part of fuse holder from satchel charge : Fire Support Base Coral

    Technology

    Maker: Unknown

    Part of the fuse from the satchel charge used to damage the 105 mm gun at Fire Support Base Coral. It is a broken tubular piece of bakelite about 145 mm long and 27 mm in diameter.

    REL35484

  13. RPG-2 Rocket Grenade (Inert) Chicom Type 50: North Vietnamese Forces

    Technology

    RPG 2 (CHICOM Type 50) rocket assisted, fin stabilised, shaped charge high explosive antitank (HEAT) round that is muzzle loaded and percussion fired. The projectile is made from light gauge sheet ste...

    RELAWM40960

  14. RPG 7V Rocket Launcher

    Technology

    RPG 7V Rocket Launcher or Anti Tank Grenade Launcher. Tubular construction having a reinforced centre section covered with a light brown wood fibre heat shield, two pistol grips and a conical rear tha...

    REL24824.001

  15. Tokarev TT 33 Pistol and Holster : North Vietnamese Forces, Battle of Long Tan

    Technology

    Tokarev TT 33 pistol and holster. Receiver marked M20 over the serial number and is damaged by a bullet hitting the top slide. The right grip is missing. The left is black plastic with a central circl...

    RELAWM40818

  16. Type 56 Assault Rifle : North Vietnamese Forces

    Technology

    Type 56 Assault Rifle. Metal construction with a varnished light wood butt, fore end and pistol grip. The receiver is marked on the left side with 66 within a triangle, three Chinese characters and th...

    REL/03014

  17. Type 11 Light Machine Gun

    Technology

    Type 11 Light Machine Gun. Gas operated, fully automatic weapon, firing from an open bolt. All steel construction body with an air cooled barrel. Barrel has machine turned 'Hotchkiss-style' disc fins...

    REL/03047

  18. Type 56 Light Machine Gun : North Vietnamese Forces

    Technology

    Chicom Type 56 Light Machine Gun. Machined and pressed metal construction receiver with a right hand cocking lever. It is marked with three Chinese characters and 36 within a triangle. The butt (with ...

    RELAWM40087

  19. Vietnamese shrapnel and small piece of ship's side plate from HMAS Perth

    Technology

    Maker: Unknown

    Two small pieces of oblong reddish-brown coloured shrapnel, and a small almost rectangular pale-coloured piece of ship's side plating possibly made from aluminium. All of the pieces are not longer tha...

    RELAWM40826

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