War trophies

At the Army Museum in Hanoi, the Vietnamese have gathered quite a bit of hardware that they have either captured or destroyed over the years. Most of it is from the French and the Americans.


This piece in particular caught my eye -- it's a chunk of a B-52 bomber that got shot down during an air raid:


One reason this museum was so fascinating was that it gave the specific history of each item. For example, the caption of an AK-47 wouldn't just say "AK-47." It would say something like "This AK-47 was used by the hero Le Trang Nguyen to kill 4 enemy soldiers and capture 10 more during the assault at Dien Bien Phu."

Every item, from the canteens to the pieces of artillery, had these sorts of descriptions.

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