American Gun

Soldiers of the First Battalion of the U.S. Army’s Seventh Cavalry Regiment poured out six at a time with weapons and supplies. Sixteen helicopters ferried hundreds of men from a staging area miles away to this instant base of operations, south of the Ia Drang River and not far from the Cambodian border. They called it LZ X-Ray. The operation in th

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“I guess being a little bit dense, I didn’t realize what the routine really was until I read in the paper about a month later announcing that selection of the M14 rifle into production,” Stoner said. Then Stoner got a call from one of the men at Ordnance. “Our ploy worked pretty good, didn’t it?” Stoner recalled the man saying. Stoner and ArmaLite

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