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Originally Posted by Oberon
I never really understood why the bayonet wasn't phased out after the first world war, I mean, with the invention of the Machine gun the massed rush that bayonets were useful against was pretty much obsolete. Plus IIRC, actually fitting a bayonet made the rifle less accurate, and yet IIRC us Brits still had bayonets in the 1950s! :hmm:
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I know the Germans used Bayonets durring their last push at Stalingrad, they didn't want to waste bullets or take prisoners.
