VN019 Lying Prone Viet Cong Sniper K&C Napoleon in Egypt 12th SS Division

12th SS Division

Marching forward and firing from the hip another gunner goes on the offensive with his LMG Type 99

Airborne Infantry in M-43 Jacket

5cm Light Field Howitzer and its crew

one of whom has just been shot

VN019 Lying Prone Viet Cong Sniper K&C Napoleon in Egypt 12th SS DivisionThe National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, commonly known as the Viet Cong were locally recruited South Vietnamese peasants and workers that fought against its own government and the United States during the conflict. The Viet Cong or VC was made up of both part time militia and regular full time army units. Many of those militia were farmers by day guerrillas by night They often had the advantage of knowing the local countryside and area well