To: Mentallo
I did read that GIs in Italy during WW2 used their .50 cal rounds as improvised mortars by shooting them upwards.We still do it. It is called plundging fire.
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65 posted on
08/28/2014 11:16:00 AM PDT by
DCBryan1
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To: DCBryan1
66 posted on
08/28/2014 11:17:23 AM PDT by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
To: DCBryan1
It is good to see old lessons remembered. From what I recall reading or hearing in a lecture the GIs in WW2 improvised that on their own - they were working stiffs form the Depression era and they improvised with the tools at hand - same with how they modified Shermans to break out of the hedgerows when engineers could not figure it out. But I digress,
78 posted on
08/28/2014 12:20:22 PM PDT by
Mentallo
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