Lets whoop this carcass good and proper! (M-16 Thread)

[GroundPounder]

I like pie.

Does anyone else like pie?

[DougWojtowicz]

Sunday monkeys don't play piano songs.

[Drone 7 of lots more]

M2HB's for the guys, and M240's for the gals.

[Rumpshot]

Cherry or Apple?

[Timo]

And turning a Garand or M14 in a tight hallway is about as easy as opening a bag of MREs without a knife.

The WWII G.I.'s managed to clear plenty of buildings with the Garand.

[Frosch]

Cherry or Apple?

Apple.

But Rhubarb -- not strawberry rhubarb -- is very, very nice.

Ooh, look! Shiny!

[cu74]

Cherry or Apple?

If those are my only choices - cherry. but I'd really rather have pecan.....

[Highspeed]

I'd love a P-38 AND a P-51


Not the can opener though

[Kommander]

Actually, mostly they didn't. It was against tactical doctrine and practice at the time.

Dontcha know, thats what tanks, mortars, and a field phone back to DivArty are for?

Ah yes, the "make the rubble bounce" school of urban combat. Too bad the US military got rid of that.

[toad]

When it absolutely had to be done they'd use a mix of M-1 Carbines, Thompsons, grenades, satchel charges, and pole charges (don't go through a door, go through the wall.)

The Garands would stiill be carried, but would be loaded with armor piercing and would be used to put down Krauts during approach and across open areas.

Back in the '50s I knew a guy who'd served in Italy. He said in his squad they had a guy that was real good at room clearing with an M-1 carbine. He could tuck the stock under his armpit and at across the room distances center punch multiple Krauts with instinctive shooting. They'd throw in a grenade or two then he'd charge in and kill anything standing or moving.

There would be times that due to time constraints, lack of communication to artillery batteries, and other things, it was necessary to assault buildings. When ever possible though bypass, and shell the crap out of urban areas was the standard. If a city on a road hub choke point had to be taken artillery would still be use as much as possible. I'm having a brain fart but on one German city they move the artillery to the side of the city so it could fire parrallel to the infrantry advance so there be less friendly fire casualties from over/unders.