VN187 ‘N.V.A. Shouting Squad Leader’

One junior North Vietnamese Army Squad leader (in charge of 4-8 soldiers) celebrating a recent victory by holding his AK47 above his head. In his left hand he holds a locally-made improvised stick grenade closely modelled on the Chinese Type 67 High Explosive Fragmentation Grenade. Although patterned after an original German design these were poorly-made resulting in many ‘duds’.