The Pistol & WWI

[cyclone]

Id rather post it here, than in the pistol & revolver section...

 

[bellero]

Good post, thanks for sharing

 

[Gov'tGrant]

Very good read, thanks for posting!

 

[5440fight]

Neat document. Interesting in bits, very dry in chunks.

 

[Bazzoka_Joe]

Nice tanks !

 

[Nyles]

Awesome! Very interesting to read about the .38 ACP Webleys, as I own one I've always liked to think had been a WW1 officer's sidearm.

 

[Alex McK]

Excellent read! How well I remember the story of how at Ypres, during the desperate fighting that occurred immediately after the gas attacks in 1915, my grandfather used his Webley service pistol to shoot dead the German soldier who leapt into the trench with him and bayoneted him through the thigh. Though always reluctant to speak about his experiences during the Great War, this one story did leak out. Reading some of the accounts in the "Pistol & WW 1", reminds us how brave those men had to be, to attack heavily defended positions while carrying only a pistol.