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To: longnshort who wrote (701690)2/28/2013 3:55:13 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576022
 
we lost millions of men, if we only had bigger clips. the real work was done by the guys with machine guns and they had more that 7 rounds any way an M1 holds 5 rounds

....the M1 Garand rifle has a 8 round clip.........being semi auto......it gave our boys a distinct advantage over the German bolt action Mauser 98 or the bolt action Japanese rifles.............a larger clip would have increased the advantage.



To: longnshort who wrote (701690)2/28/2013 4:03:12 PM
From: J_F_Shepard1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1576022
 
An M-1 had an 8 round clip, not 7 as I said....There was typically one machine gun ( the BAR) per squad (12-15 men).. We didn't lose millions of men, we lost 418,000 including Coast Guard and Merchant Marine... Russia, Germany, China, and Japan each lost over a million.....the USSR biggest loser with 9-11 million military, 23-24 million total...


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