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That would put a different look in your eyes after, going around with your bayonet or a Mk 1 dispatching wounded enemy...
Nope, looking for souvenirs.
Possibly Jim but maybe "souvenering" from their mouths Leckie and others in the PTO witnessed certain individuals harvesting gold from the enemy after all the stories, atrocities committed by the enemy along with months of endless savage fighting some of the toughest in the war such was a practice born.
Could be anywhere in the Pacific but looking at the picture "Bloody Ridge" (Battle of Edson's Ridge) comes to mind.
Its the way it was in an era when truly the world went mad, sometimes I think we have not learned much at all from any of the wars..........
Is that a "Long" bayonet on the Garand if it is what year did they shorten them up that one looks like its not to short of the OAL of an 303 1907 bayonet.
Possible, you can't be sure...but there are accounts of dispatching too. Either way, moving around through the dead has a profound effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Daan Kemp
It is full length, they started to cut them as they started to produce them again in about '42/'43... The USMC retained it's long bayonets until refurb.Quote:
Originally Posted by CINDERS