Thanks Ted...I found his obituary. Col. Roseman was obviously a man of engineering talent, energy and high intellect. He served at the Army College in Saigon...probably teaching ARVN officers. That was honorable service but not combat. No problem with that - he served. But that shotgun then was likely a presentation piece. That's not a problem either. Then again the editors didn't have to build it up by making it out to be a VC weapon....but what the heck...it's a story about the resurrection of a gun with a neat provenance....they just implied more than they should have.
And believe me, the world is full of similar exaggerations. About 3,500,000 American military personnel from Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force served in the SE Asian theater (from Thailand to Guam) from 1956-75. At the last census over 14 million claimed to be Vietnam Vets. And that count of exaggerators doesn't include all the fishermen in the world.
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