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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."This article is about the weapons used in the Vietnam War, which involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the China (PLA), Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), United States, Republic of Korea, Philippines, Thailand, and the Australian, New Zealand defence forces, and a variety of irregular troops.

Nearly all United States-allied forces were armed with U.S. weapons including the M1 Garand, M1 carbine, M14 and M16. The Australian and New Zealand forces employed the 7.62 mm L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle as their service rifle, with the occasional US M16."...
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In the late 1940s, Russia supplied the Communist forces with captured Japanese artillery and ammunition to defeat Chiang Kai-shek at the same time that our ambassador George C Marshall hated Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek and cut him off from resupply. You could read about it in this book.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2180626.Hazardous_Duty
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