Story: Cold War

Vietnam: training local personnel

Corporal Steve Vautier of the New Zealand army training team instructs Vietnamese soldiers in the use of an M60 machine gun at Chi Lang, Vietnam, in 1971.

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Gerald Hensley, Cold War – South-East Asia, 1955 to 1975, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/32703/vietnam-training-local-personnel (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Gerald Hensley, published 16 April 2012.