Colonel Cooper also later described the South African Armored Car action [at Ebo, as I recall] in which one Eland A/C went to retrieve another that was bogged down, then itself stalled, whereupon it was taken under fire by a platoon-sized group of Angolans and Cubans. Out of 90mm main gun ammo, the gunner/commander had no recourse but to return fire with his 9mm Star pistol, his two spare magazines and those of his driver, five each, eight round mags in all.
Result: 29 hostiles killed or wounded, for an expenditure of fewer than 40 rounds. And not with a double-column *large capacity* magazine, but a standard eight-shot army issue piece, firing through a 4x4 inch reloading hatch in the side of the turret.
But that is extended aimed fire, not *spray and pray.* And with a 9mm, rather than a .45.
Dwight Johnson received the Medal of Honor for his own similar activities under somewhat similar circumstances, except that he was limited in the amount of M1911A1 .45 magazines available, and while beating North Vietnamese Army sappers to death with a salvaged M3 greasegun, it broke and he was left with having to spear at least one of them with the M3s wire buttstock. Oh, and the fight lasted a half hour or so, and it was at night....
Dwight's the fella hanging off the main gun's bore evacuator....
