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csmkersh, Something similar happened at Firebase Tiger in RVN, over near the Laos border between an A Team, about 40 SVN Rangers & a Mike Force of about 300 "Hill people" when the firebase faced at least 4000 NVA Regulars & a large but unknown number of PFVN/VC fighters. The machine-gunners had to STOP firing several times to remove the bodies of the enemy soldiers, as the gunners couldn't SEE over the piles of bodies. yours, sw |
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If one is hopped up on drugs (not unheard of for Japanese soldiers) or even adrenaline, body shots may not stop the victim immediatly. There were American soldiers shot who didn't even realize they'd been shot until after the battle.... often extremity wounds which proved nonfatal anyway. One story of an American soldier taking a Japanese rifle bullet straight through his brain that didn't even know he'd been shot, until minutes later, when his c.o. took his helmet off to show him the bullet hole. The bullet had gone precisely between the left and right hemisphere of his brain. Pre-cise-ly. Wierd things happen in war. Yet, wars tally up the dead pretty quickly, nevertheless. ![]() | |
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IrishCop, One of the stranger true stories from WWI came from a US Marine who caught a bullet in the helmet, which penetrated the left-front part of the helmet, traveled around the inside of the liner & struck him in the left rear of his head & OPENED UP his scalp from one side to the other BUT did not penetrate the skull. = CPL Lightfoot was thereafter know among his friends as IRONHEAD. He reportedly said, "It didn't hurt much but it sure bled like hell." yours, sw |
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SO.........the only solution seems..
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| Javlin, CERTAINLY EFFECTIVE but difficult to hand carry & you would need a platoon of ammo bearers to follow the gunner about his missions. Btw, according to my Uncle "PeeWee" (He acquired his nickname as he weighed 109 pounds when he graduated from boot camp.), who was on the beach with the Naval Landing Party at TARAWA a Marine E5 named AMOS was so effective with his MG that the company commander assigned 5 enlisted Marines to carry belts of ammo for the SGT's gun. yours, sw |
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DUPLICATE = SORRY. yours, sw Last edited by Doughboy; 01-11-2020 at 11:26 AM. |
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I think I've mentioned this before, but......back in my college days I met 3 guys in a couple weeks who'd lost part of a hand to sword wielding Japanese after being hit with carbine loads. In all cases this was with the first model of carbine where the safety and mag release buttons were both push buttons and they managed to drop their mags while releasing the safety. Each got off the chambered round and then "click"! The one guy had a photo of himself posing with his late adversary while pointing to the impact point of his bullet. (dead center but right below the rib cage) Fortunately, the guy next to him had a Thompson and managed to shoot the sword wielder off. |
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To All, Speaking of WEIRD things that happen in war, a friend of my father's, SGT H.F. Muckelroy, USAAC, fell out of the bomb-bay door of a B-17 THREE times during WWII (while each time trying to kick a "stuck bomb loose") & finally died of old age in 1989. In those 3 FALLS, his most "severe injury" was a severed left forefinger & a badly sprained right ankle. = He told me that on his third fall that, "I thought that I was going to drown but a local Italian fisherman pulled me out of the ocean." (His other two "unplanned landings" were into DEEP snowbanks.) yours, sw |
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