Hello... seeking informations, and I found you.. ;

[yannminh]

Hello, 

I am just making an digital book for PC, MAC, smartphones and tablettes about the story that tell me my vietnamese father before he died... at 14 years old he made the indochina war in both camps... first with nationalists and viet minh, and after as traducer for the french army...

The story is here (in french), and I am just building an application to tell this story through unity3D (a video game software )... 

www.yannminh.org/french/TxtPDCT030.html

For this digital book, I was Looking for documentation about french and vietminh weapons, and I found your website, really interesting.. 

Thanks for all your informations... 




Here is the model I did in 3d with Daz studio and some files bought on the web.. 

[yannminh]

Something that maybe interesting...

My father tall me that, at the first begining, before the real fights, around 1946, vietminh had american weapons... thompson... and assault rifles...

[lew]

The Viet Minh made use of whatever weapons they could find. In the earlier years, that would have been French, Japanese, and smaller amount of British and American-made weapons. No assault rifles would have been in use on either side. Later, the Algerian rebels did use German MP-44 Sturmgewehr assault rifles, but the VM would have been limited to rifles, pistols, submachineguns, automatic rifles, and light machineguns. Russian and Chinese arms started trickling in about 1948 and really started moving in after the Chinese communists gained power in 1949. This book will tell you what you need to know.

For your model: Both British and French shorts did not have cargo pockets. Both had two front slash pockets near the hips and a rear pocket on the right side. It would be more representative if the soldier was wearing either Pataugas (chausseurs de brousse) or brodequins Mle. 17, 35, or 45 instead of high-top jump boots. Socks would have been rolled down to rest on the very top of the shoe.

Your father's story is an interesting one. Bon chance on your project.