Thursday, March 20, 2025

Mystery Soldier

 


I don’t recognize that SMG.

Which country do you think he’s from…?

20 comments:

  1. France?

    Chutes Magoo

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  2. Looks like French Foreign Legion. That folding mag SMG was something they used in the late 50s and early 60s...

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  3. it is France, had to look it up
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAT-49

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  4. The SMG is a French MAT49, this was the best 9mm SMG in my opinion, and the holy grail when I was in Vietnam (5th SFG (ABN), 10/64-05/66), even more so than the Swedish K (Carl Gustaf M45). You could get a Swedish K by joining up with SOG, or (God forbid) signing up with the CIA, but the MAT 49 was only available off of dead Viet Cong. The best feature was the (loaded) magazine folding up parallel to the barrel allowing easy (and safe) carry through jungle (with the bolt cocked), just snap the magazine down and rock and roll. The sliding stock was a direct design ripoff from the US grease gun. The unknown soldier is probably French Foreign Legion (with the lizard patten camo), but very few locations that the FFL hung out in were cold enough for gloves.

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  5. It's a MAS 38.
    It's French

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  6. The only thing that looks familiar to me is the Knife. It looks like the standard WWll, (they kept making them till post Viet Nam) Mk2, MARK2, Navy fighting knife. They came in Kabar, Camillus and another maker or 2. The Marines and Army were also issued them. I think the Army version was not marked MK2. They just had the name and maybe US stamped on them. It's in a late WWll/post WWll, fiberglass scabbard.
    The subgun looks vaguely familiar, like some kind of Scandinavian or East European, post WWll subgun.
    He's fine looking young lad, wonder if he survived or died in one of our jooo contrived, White Brother wars.

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  7. Fwance. It's a MAT-49.

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  8. That might be a Sten.

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  9. The SMG looks very like a French MAT-49

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  10. MAT-49 it's a French SMG.

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  11. French Soldier / Mat-49 Sub Machine gun

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  12. Cold War-Vietnam era Hodgkiss SMG

    Probably Vietnam Dien Bien Phu era photograph of a French soldier.

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  13. French
    MAT 49 smg, from the fifties I believe.

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  14. MAT-49 Foldable 9mm French Subgun. REALLY popular w/Airborne forces. I'd guess by the pattern of the camo and the Hat, French Foreign Legion

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  15. I watch a forgotten weapons on the mat-49 recently. The foreign legion used them into the 80's i think is what he said

    Exile1981

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