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Old 03-22-10, 11:24 PM   #54
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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee View Post
practice practice practice!!!!!


Seriously though I wonder how useful they would actually have been in the hands of a Marine. I mean at the time they had no experience with the Garand at all. No training in its operation or maintenance or even any practice firing it. Nor did they have more than a very limited supply of the 8 round clips required to feed the Garand even if they could figure out how to make it work.

You saw that night battle. That was no place to be with an unfamiliar weapon!
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