Original U.S. Vietnam War M60 Display Machine Gun - 3rd Army Training Aids Center Fort Benning Category_Flintlock Muskets and Rifles The bottom reads:

The bottom reads:

while the others unloaded after 28 troop carriers

are the words CAST STEEL on the barrel

The bed roll was attached externally (see Sleeping Bag Straps)

Original U.S. Vietnam War M60 Display Machine Gun - 3rd Army Training Aids Center Fort Benning Category_Flintlock Muskets and Rifles The bottom reads:Original Item: Only One Available. The M60 machine gun began development in the late 1940s as a program for a new, lighter 7. 62 mm machine gun. It was derived from German machine guns of World War II (most notably the FG 42 and to a lesser extent the MG 42), but it contained American innovations as well. Early prototypes, notably the T52 and T161 bore a close resemblance to both the M1941 Johnson machine gun and the FG 42. It was intended to replace