-
Contributing Member
8 Feb 2023 Garand Picture of the Day
Information
 |
Warning: This is a relatively older thread
This discussion is older than 360 days. Some information contained in it may no longer be current. |
|
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
-
The Following 15 Members Say Thank You to Mark in Rochester For This Useful Post:
25-5,
30-06_mike,
Bill Hollinger,
Bob Womack,
CINDERS,
ed skeels,
fjruple,
Flying10uk,
frankderrico,
jond41403,
Jonzie,
lgr1613,
Ovidio,
RAM1ALASKA,
Zeke55
-
02-06-2023 10:15 PM
# ADS
Friends and Sponsors
-
Senior Moderator
(Milsurp Forums)
Just a liner, no steel shell. Hum....
Bill Hollinger
"We're surrounded, that simplifies our problem!"
-
Thank You to Bill Hollinger For This Useful Post:
-
-
Advisory Panel
Originally Posted by
Bill Hollinger
Just a liner
Saw that this morning, won't stop much frag. Looks like someone's about to get shot though.
-
-
Contributing Member
Is that a 30/06 AP round in front of him black tip bullet pointed towards him, hard to tell in B/W could be trace or Icnd is there a colorised version Mark.
-
-
Advisory Panel
Originally Posted by
CINDERS
Is that a 30/06 AP round
There isn't a caption for this one I could find but the pic is from Korea so since they used almost exclusively AP in the M1
rifle it follows...it's an AP.
-
The Following 2 Members Say Thank You to browningautorifle For This Useful Post:
-
Legacy Member
On a recent documentary (Desert War?) it said that steel helmets were sometimes/often not worn on night time patrols because the wind blowing round the helmet could create sufficient sound to be heard by an enemy. I haven't heard this before and, obviously, it would depend on how close you found yourself to any enemy, but could it? Could the wind blowing round a steel helmet be heard by an enemy, especially in the desert at night, if you were close enough.
-
-
Advisory Panel
Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
t said that steel helmets were sometimes/often not worn on night time patrols because the wind blowing round the helmet could create sufficient sound to be heard by an enemy.
I wore them and I've never heard that either. Sounds like an "Expert" opinion. I've heard the odd wind sound because the strap bails were right beside my ears... I didn't like helmets on patrol and generally we didn't wear helmets on patrol because...you couldn't hear anything and they were clumsy for creeping around. Had nothing to do with this other rumor.
-
-
Contributing Member
The bandoleer suggests combat.
Real men measure once and cut.
-
-
Contributing Member
Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
On a recent documentary (Desert War?) it said that steel helmets were sometimes/often not worn on night time patrols because the wind blowing round the helmet could create sufficient sound to be heard by an enemy. I haven't heard this before and, obviously, it would depend on how close you found yourself to any enemy, but could it? Could the wind blowing round a steel helmet be heard by an enemy, especially in the desert at night, if you were close enough.
This sounds a bit like the legend of the clanking of the clips giving out one's empty rifle condition.
I have shot my Garand just last week and it occurred to me... Never really believed it. Maybe, but just maybe, in a close combat situation, urban combat. But then, I could throw a clip on the ground as a deceit while my buddy is shooting a couple rounds. Surprise!
34a cp., btg. Susa, 3° rgt. Alpini
-
-
Legacy Member
It was specifically the "brodie style helmet", i.e. with a rim that the veteran was referring to. I couldn't really see it when he said it but he was recounting something that had occurred more than 70 years previously.
-
PM
