66 • Zips, Pipes, Both the Wet Minh and the Wet Cong mode extensive use of homemade, copied, and improvised firearms. In this VJ Day picture taken in Hanoi in 1 945, several of the men in the foreground are brandishing homemade pistols (Courtesy of Frank C Brown J Early guerrilla fighters in Wetnam used a variety of available weapons, especially homemade models . . . including the Thompson in the second row. UK Angolia photo, courtesy of Frank C Brown J