A Chinese Communist potato masher with exposed components being displayed as a captured weapon during the Vietnam War. The photograph was taken on May 24, 1966, by CWO-4 Chapel of the 1stdMarDiv in Vietnam. It was officially released by the Defense Department as part of their records.

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