Have you heard this? re: Garands and SMLE, WWII

There were always a few BAR, M1 Carbine, Thompson or Grease gun mixed in with the Garands. Good luck with that 8-round theory.
 
Exceptionally good story, and I bet it gets better after every other beer! Having shot the Garand for over 20 years, at least 6 of them in 3 gun matches (4 of which, I generally came in the top 5 in local matches)I find that a skilled shooter can load a Garand as fast or faster than some people can load an AR-15/C7. An infanteer at the front, would be a skilled handler in a very short time period. When you add the additional recoil of a bolt action Enfield over a gas operated M1, the story becomes less than believable.
 
ipscgraz said:
Johnsons in Korea?

As far as charging a "yank" after 8 rounds, I can replace the 8 round en-bloc clip in a garand and have it back at my shoulder in about 2 seconds.

Hope they could run fast...
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Quite often the GI would clip on a couple enblocs to the rifle sling. Its alot easier and faster to get to when your laying on your belly. Just think of trying to fumble your way into a pouch on your belt while kissing mother earth.
 
john@ said:
No this is totally true, my granpa told me he read it on the internet, american tactics at the time trained everyone to shoot in sequence so everyone would run out of ammo at the EXACT SAME same time (I know stupiud right, but this was the fourties), then when the whole squad was fumbling for a new enblock, theyd get wiped out from 100 yards away by a guy with a long barrel sniper luger with a shoulder stock and a 32 round snail drum mag. True story, swear to god.


Absoluetly True

I swear
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Oh, then it must be true. It was on the Internet? :D
 
Can anyone verify another World War I story. I read, once again can't remember the source, that machine gunners were so good with their guns that they could tap out morse code messages to their people behind the lines requesting various items or just letting them know what was happening in their sector. Anyone hear that one?
 
I had read somewhere of a German gunner who attempted to play "The Maple Leaf Forever" on his gun, but horribly mangled it and "forced" the Canadians opposite to mount a raid....
 
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