The Army started development of the original M60 in-house in the late 1940s, leveraging design elements from Nazi Germany’s FG-42 automatic rifle and MG-42 machine gun. The service adopted the ...
Vietnam. 1966-03. Swinging a belt of M60 machine gun ammunition, Private Bernie Buckle of Victoria Park, WA, leaves the M113 armoured personnel carrier that has brought him back from a patrol outside ...