Funny how army doctrine works. Take now for example: "Hey, lets use .223 ammo so we can carry twice as much". Oops, we're supposed to score THREE hits to ensure a kill now. That's good math.
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Funny how army doctrine works. Take now for example: "Hey, lets use .223 ammo so we can carry twice as much". Oops, we're supposed to score THREE hits to ensure a kill now. That's good math.
They never have wanted to ensure a kill, except under special circumstances.
Takes a lot more of the enemy to care for a wounded man than a dead one. Not only that but the dead fellow is gone and forgotten. The wounded fellow, can raise all kinds of psychological concerns within his own ranks.
The US got it right the first time with the 1-14 twist rate and the 55 grain bullet. Especially for human targets. The bullet was just barely stabilized and would tumble on contact. Very nasty wounds.
I will admit though the 55 grain bullets weren't much good on mechanical targets, although the round would penetrate a steel helmet at 600 yards, according to testing done by the US government.
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All this pic needs is Jeff Chandler ordering "Away All Boats".
The Western Front.
The SMLE Mark III/III* rifle actually WORKED in this environment and would STILL put out its minimum 15 rounds per minute, aimed fire.
And some guy will look at this and say, "Gee...... THAT's no reason for 'forced-matched' parts on a rifle!"
Bruce Bairnsfather did a cartoon of two troopies standing in a trench filled with water and reading a newspaper. The headline said something about the U-boat menace on the high seas and one troopie said to the other, "I guess they're goin' to be torpedoing us next!"
Look at this picture carefully. YOUR great-grandfathers fought a WAR in this, for four and a half years. THIS is part of the reason that most of them NEVER talked about it.
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The SMLE Mark III/III* rifle actually WORKED in this environment and would STILL put out its minimum 15 rounds per minute, aimed fire.
And some guy will look at this and say, "Gee...... THAT's no reason for 'forced-matched' parts on a rifle!"
Bruce Bairnsfather did a cartoon of two troopies standing in a trench filled with water and reading a newspaper. The headline said something about the U-boat menace on the high seas and one troopie said to the other, "I guess they're goin' to be torpedoing us next!"
Look at this picture carefully. YOUR great-grandfathers fought a WAR in this, for four and a half years. THIS is part of the reason that most of them NEVER talked about it.
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Honestly, for what the trench-guys endured, water filled britches n' boots were the nicer parts!
I'm a fan of history, and it's lessons. This sentiment is why I get my back up when someone who EXPERIENCED a taste (any war) lopped the wood off their irons is now called Bubba! They converted their world changers into game-guns, and no...didn't care to preserve the history us "kids" all revere the collectibles from now. Honestly, trench-foot would be a gift compared to the experieces they had
Not a license for anyone today to hack up history, but respect where respect is due.
a friend of mines grand dad served in the canadian army in ww1 and his letters all seem very ho-hum and dull with the odd bit of war mentioned, but nothing graphic or horrible, but he came home with both his legs covered in tattoos from foot to hip, and hadnt mentioned getting them in 3 years of not seeing the missus.
Great grandpa was a sniper in WW1. He mentioned that he had a lot of earaches and bouts of appendicitis while overseas. Lying in cold muck for days will do that, I guess. Anyway, they finally took out the appendix. Wasn't until long after he died and we got his service records that we read in the report "removed appendix" followed almost as an afterthought with "repair gunshot wound to right thigh". He never told anybody in the family he'd been hit.
