AK-47 Helped Defeat US Forces

[From article]
"By the summer of 1967, the Viet Cong were killing 800 US servicemen per month, with the majority of deaths coming from small-arms fire: the VC’s far-more-reliable AK-47s.

Chivers lays out numerous scenes in which trapped American soldiers faced enemy fire while trying to revive jammed weapons. [. . .]

Chivers quotes a soldier, in an interview with the Asbury Park Evening Press, saying, “You know what killed most of us? Our own rifle. Practically every one of our dead was found with his rifle tore down next to him where he had been trying to fix it.”

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Mikhail T.Kalashnikov holds his world-
famous AK-47 assault rifle

The gun that changed the world
How the AK-47 became the greatest enemy of the United States
By LARRY GETLEN
New York Post
Last Updated: 5:08 AM, December 12, 2010
Posted: 12:33 AM, December 12, 2010