Fury

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I remember talking to an ex Army infantryman and he wasn't happy with the M-3 he was issued. He said the barrel was pretty much worn out so velocity and accuracy much lower than it should have been, " I didn't have the confidence that it could shoot through a screen door." On the other hand I knew a Marine who served in the Vietnamese War and was quite fond of his. The one type he had had a hole in the bolt that you used to charge it instead of a charging handle. I keep forgetting to look that up.
The Dallas Fort Worth gun range is supposed to be getting one for one of their rent to shoot collection of full auto weapons. I think they were waiting for ATF paperwork to clear.

One problem was that after the Normandy break out command staff figured the war was going to wind up real quick so they let artillery stocks dwindle, manpower, and didn't push forward with the production of the M-26 Pershing. When the Battle of the Bulge kicked off band members, cooks, and clerks found themselves being shipped forward as infantry. I remember one WW II band member saying that by chance he'd had the opportunity to train on the Browning 1917 and had gotten pretty good with it. Which came in pretty handy when he was sent forward. The most important thing he was taught was not to stay in one place to long and always have some place to move to .

[JAG2955]

Just watched it. I think that they used the German propaganda manual for the tank battles, but the rest of it was okay. Granted, I wished that Norman would have smashed Coon-Ass's face in with a brick.

[Jericho941]

Just watched it. I think that they used the German propaganda manual for the tank battles, but the rest of it was okay. Granted, I wished that Norman would have smashed Coon-Ass's face in with a brick.

Or Belton Cooper's Death Traps, which was where they drew much of the inspiration from. Which is why there's all that business about inferior equipment, and why when the Tiger shows up, it's treated not as a tough opponent in an action movie, so much as a horror movie where "the monster has found us." Even down to the soundtrack, where this is the song that plays through that scene.

The only problem with Death Traps is that Cooper was a maintenance officer, not a tanker, and his book is a memoir, not a history book. A memoir written and published decades after the war, at that. Which is why it's fraught with errors that have led to most of the popular myths spouted on the History Channel, and subsequently the Internet. http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/07/28/plea ... ther-myth/

That's not meant as a slight against the man's character. I do not believe he intended to lie. I just think that he was deeply affected by the sort of work he had to do, and wound up repeating a lot of unsubstantiated rumors to make sense of what seemed like an impossibly horrible situation.