Bài này tổng hợp một vài bản tin của phóng viên và binh sĩ Hoa Kỳ thuật lại một vấn đề thường thấy trong chiến tranh Việt Nam trước 1975- Một vấn đề mà các Cộng Sản trẻ tại Việt nam quyết liệt phủ nhận- cho rằng đó chỉ là sản phẩm tuyên truyền vu khống của Tâm lý Chiến VNCH :Cán binh Cộng Sản bị xích chân vô súng .

-Bài viết :2/503d VIETNAM Newletter
http://www.ibiblio.org/173abn/2bat/Issue5.pdf
Trích đoạn trong trang 5:
“The Vietnamese kept coming even when it was obvious they were losing – they didn’t have radios and couldn’t call off the assault. Afterward, one dead VC soldier was found chained to his machine-gun. The courage of my soldiers is what I recall most about that fight. I don’t think I’ll ever be in such fine company again.”
Tom Faley

-Baì viết :Interview Transcript: Daniel Edward Burress: Veterans History ...
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/vhp-sto...ript?ID=sr0001
Trích đoạn:
...the most gruesome sight I thought I would ever see was a Vietnamese, Viet Cong soldier chained to a machine gun and burnt up to a crisp, because they chained him to that gun so he would sit there and just fire and fire and fire, and he'd better not stop firing because when he stopped firing, he's dead, ...

-Bài viết: 7th Armored Squadron 1st Air Cavalry Blackhawks
http://www.blackhawk6.com/_home/about
Trích đoạn:
.At the conclusion of the battle it was discovered the crews serving the 50-caliber machine had been chained to the weapon..


-Bài viết :Were there suicide bombers in Vietnam.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Were_there...ers_in_Vietnam
Trích đoạn :
There are accounts of VietCong soldiers being chained with their machine guns to strategic positions. One hopes the unfortunate soldier had a say in this. ...

-Bài viết:The Phantom Blooper: Travels With Charlie
http://www.gustavhasford.com/blooper2.htm
Trích đoạn:
The Viet Cong schoolhouse is a spacious building of handmade yellow bricks and ...... about Marines finding dead Viet Cong children, chained to machine guns. ...

-Bài viết:Vietnam War Bibliography: The Communists
http://www.clemson.edu/caah/history/...oise/comm.html
Trích đoạn:
Thomas Campbell, "Facing the Enemy." Naval History, February 1996, pp. 42-45. Cambell became an adviser to RVN Marines late in 1965. Interesting items include an incident of a PAVN soldier who only appeared to be chained to his machine gun.
(Ghi chú:PAVN=People's Army of Vietnam: Quân Đội Nhân Dân VN =Cộng sản Bắc Việt)

-Bài viết : Red crew chaind in tank
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...pg=6983,841923
Trích đoạn:
AN LOC, south Vietnam(UPI)- There was a body outside the North Vietnamese tank, apparently of the tank commander. Down inside were two more body, dead from a direct hit by an antitank M72 rocket.
I saw something glint in the darkness. I felt the man's ankle, It was chained to the inside of the tank with quarter-in thick chain links .

-Bài viết: U.S. Troops Find Viet Cong Chained
http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=2776,4670842
Trích đoạn:
SAIGON (UPI)- American soldiers have reported seeing Viet cong troops chained to their machineguns and communist snippers lashed to trees on several occasions dủing the past few months .


-Bài viết:The girl in the picture: the story of Kim Phuc, the photograph
http://books.google.com/books?id=Fn7...0death&f=false
Trích đoạn:
..They found three Viet Cong dead: one in the tunnel opening in the garden; two in the house, one of them in his machine-gun nest, the leader having chained him at the ankle there to ensure that he fought to his death