art Posters of Heros in sino viet nam war 1979

[Red Guard]

http://bwl.jschina.com.cn/war79/t1/arts/hero/79_01.jpg
战斗英雄 山达
http://bwl.jschina.com.cn/war79/t1/arts/hero/79_02.jpg
战斗英雄 胡绪清
http://bwl.jschina.com.cn/war79/t1/arts/hero/79_03.jpg
战斗英雄 梁英瑞

http://bwl.jschina.com.cn/war79/t1/arts/hero/79_04.jpg
董存瑞式的战斗英雄 李成文

http://bwl.jschina.com.cn/war79/t1/arts/hero/79_05.jpg
战斗英雄 李德贵

[Red Guard]

http://bwl.jschina.com.cn/war79/t1/arts/hero/79_06.jpg
战斗英雄 覃毅忠
http://bwl.jschina.com.cn/war79/t1/arts/hero/79_07.jpg
战斗英雄 杨建章
中央军委授予杨建章“勇于献身的共产主义战士”称号

http://bwl.jschina.com.cn/war79/t1/arts/hero/79_08.jpg
孤胆英雄 岩龙

[PiSigma]

wow.. great pics.. where did you find them??? it's cool how there's that one guy doing something very similar as 董存瑞, he must have watched a lot of old war propaganda movies... anywayz.. notice most of the pics already have the guys using AKs... didn't china only adopt the AK after a while in the sino-vietnam war??

[T-U-P]

no, they had aks back then. i've seen real pictures with chinese soldiers holding aks during the vietnam war. actually, those pictures are mainly from the old sino-vietnam war thread back in ezboard.

[Red Guard]

well, AK-47 were named type 56 submachine gun* is because it was imported and copied in 1956. but SKS, as type 56 semi auto rifle was the standard rifle for the force back then. when it's 60s, type 63 was issued, it was an auto rifle. later it was proved no good in services and soldiers thought it "wastes bullets too much". so in a 12 men sqd, sqd leader and vice sqd leader uses type 56 submachine gun, and 8 rifle men with SKS, 1 machine gunner and 1 feeder. rpg may be in some of the units. in 1979, bullets rain were throw on PLA, as they realized the importance of the fire rate, and as claimed in the books " everyone took a type 56 semi into the battle and as they returned, almost all SKSes were claimed lost and with brand new AK-47s in hands"
type 63s were reissued later in 1979, but were retired forever from the service very soon. and type 56 submachine gun became the standard rifle after the war of 1979. until type 81 were tested in battle of lao shan.

*type 56 submachine gun. as people may notice that i said submachine gun instead of "assualt rifle" or "automatic rifle". In china, back then, people only recongized two types of automatic weaponary, machine gun and submachine gun, it could be an inflence of PPSh-41/43 submachine gun. To difference both type 56s, one was caled type 56 semi auto rifle another was called type 56 submachine gun.

Most of the AK shaped rifle in the war of 1979 were captured viet namese weapons.

[patriot]

The type 56 submachine gun had made most Chinese soldiers suffer during the 17 day war. It was single shot while the Vietnamese had automatic guns. My friend who served in the war said that his squad equipped with the type 56 gun suffered 80% casualty trying to take a hill defended only by 2 Vietnamese soldier. It's all because of the gun that they are using.