To: unkus
"A little trivia: Gen. Patton designed a sword for the US Army." Technically, it was a cavalry saber. The gentle arc of the blade was so that one could impale a dismounted soldier at a gallop, and easily withdraw the blade by rotating the shoulder as your horse rode by :-)
22 posted on
05/04/2009 2:23:48 PM PDT by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Joe 6-pack
You’re right. We must read the same Patton books. I had forgotten the details.
23 posted on
05/04/2009 2:29:33 PM PDT by
unkus
To: Joe 6-pack
“as your horse rode by :-)”
Would I have been riding 2 horses double-decker or did my horse get his own mount?
[just checking in to pick on Joe]
:)
30 posted on
05/04/2009 8:44:59 PM PDT by
Salamander
(Cursed with Second Sight.)
To: Joe 6-pack
"A little trivia: Gen. Patton designed a sword for the US Army."
M1913 "Patton" pattern cavalry sabre.
35 posted on
05/05/2009 7:35:46 AM PDT by
LexBaird
(Tyrannosaurus Lex, unapologetic carnivore)
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