Uncommon Valor: Difference between revisions
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Uncommon Valor: Difference between revisions
[[Image:Uncommon Valor 2 19113.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Blaster guards a sewage tunnel with his M1911.]]
[[Image:Uncommon Valor 2 19113.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Blaster guards a sewage tunnel with his M1911.]]
=Thompson=
=M1928A1 Thompson=
When their weapons are confiscated before the rescue mission, the men are forced to use older WWII-era weapons including the M1928A1 Thompson. Wilkes, Blaster and Charts ([[Tim Thomerson]]) are seen with the Thompson.
[[Image:M1928-A1 T.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1928A1 Thompson with 30-round stick magazine and early 'simplified' rear sight that would be adopted for the M1 Thompson - .45 ACP ]]
[[Image:M1928-A1 T.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1928A1 Thompson with 30-round stick magazine and early 'simplified' rear sight that would be adopted for the M1 Thompson - .45 ACP ]]
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[[Image:UncommonV205.JPG|thumb|none|500px|A Thompson is seen on a pack mule.]]
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[[Image:UncommonV208.JPG|thumb|none|500px|Blaster aims his Thompson as Johnson readies the recoilless rifle.]]
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[[Image:UncommonV219.JPG|thumb|none|500px|Wilkes opens up with his Thompson.]]
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[[Image:Uncommon Valor 2 t6.jpg|thumb|none|500px|Blaster fires his Thompson at an oncoming patrol boat.]]
Uncommon Valor is a 1983 film starring (Gene Hackman) and (Patrick Swayze) which involves a group of Vietnam veterans determined to retrieve POW's left behind during the war.
When their weapons are confiscated before the rescue mission, the men are forced to use older WWII-era weapons including the M1928A1 Thompson. Wilkes, Blaster and Charts (Tim Thomerson) are seen with the Thompson.
In the flashback scene where the LRRPs are running back to the helicopters, some (including Sailor) are carrying the MGC CAR-15 replica rifle. They are never seen firing. The CAR-15s by MGC were always sold with the replica 30 round magazines. Some of the CAR-15s in the film took 20 round magazines off of the MGC M16 replica rifles and used those. Others retained the stock 30 round magazine.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingChinese Type 56 Carbine aka the Chinese SKS rifle - 7.62x39mm. The Chinese SKS has a stamped receiver and a spike bayonet (aka a "pig sticker") much like one of their AK47 copies - the Type 56 assault rifle. This version, like many imported SKS rifles, have the infamous 'orange cratewood' stocks, probably the lowest quality wood in any mass produced rifle, save for the last ditch Arisaka Type 99 rifles at the end of WW2. Many SKS rifles during the Vietnam War were issued with reddish plastic stocks, because of the incidents of 'wood rot' in the humid SE Asian jungles.File:Uncommon Valor 2 sks.jpgFile:Uncommon Valor 2 sks2.jpgFile:Uncommon Valor 2 sks3.jpg
Movie used a fake barrel shroud on a M60 machine gun to make it look like a MG42. You can notice in the photos there is no opening to remove the barrel on the right hand side. Also there is ammo bag hanger on the left side and the nut on the bottom of the gas cylinder is showing below the shroud. The stock was left off on the helicopter just like M60C gun and a fake rubber stock was add for the ground scene.
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