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To: yarddog
"It is OK but has some really obvious goofs such as showing American troops and German troops shooting Lee Enfields."

Sgt. Alvin York was supposedly using an Enfield when he won his CMH, but I know the Germans definitely weren't using Enfields.

59 posted on 05/28/2014 4:04:22 PM PDT by Flag_This (Liberalism: Kills countries dead.)
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To: Flag_This

Sgt. York was using a 1917 Enfield but it is a totally different gun than the Lee Enfield. The pattern 14 Enfield was a British attempt to improve on their rifles by going to a Mauser type action and a .280 cartridge.

WWI interrupted the whole thing and the British contracted with American manufacturers to produce the Pattern 14 but in .303 caliber. I am not sure if any of them ever made it to Britain but America had a shortage of rifles in 1917 and had the factories change the pattern 14 to 30-06 and named it the 1917 Enfield. We actually produced more of them than we did 1903 Springfields.


68 posted on 05/28/2014 4:12:54 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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