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If the area was foggy, it could well distort sound, as could mere distance.
Also, dropping behind enemy lines at night would put CONSIDERABLE stress on
a soldier. Debriefing of soldiers involved in the same action often show
everything from monor inconsistencies to widely different impressions of
the same battle by different soldiers.
When we have had WWI and WWII frontline soldiers at the range, almost
EVERYone of them said that they did not remember the mauser rifles sounding
like that. A sound that every GI in both theaters DID recognize was the
sound of the M1 rifle 8 round enbloc clip shooing out of the rifle after
the last shot and soundling like a tin can on a gravel road when it hit the
ground. A sound every soldier in the Pacific theater recognized, was the
"rattle" of the dust cover on the Japanese Arisaka rifle. Nothing else
sounds like that and many Japanese took them off an threw them away after a
couple of engagements. That sound would draw horrendous American fire.
I have talked to a lot of combat soldiers about the old WWI and WWII
military rifle over the years but it all just boils down to my
recollections of their impressions. If anyone knows of any actual research
done on the dicotomy of recollections of WWI and WWII soldiers and the
actual events, I would love to hear about it. The only one I know about
involves the Little Bighorn Battlefield and difference bewteen the reported
events and where the archaeology showed that the actual engagements were.
Smoke.
Smoke (Michael A.) Pfeiffer, RPA
Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
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Ron May
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Well Smoke,
Inspite of your extensive research, veterans of D-Day claimed the German
rifles did, in fact, make a similar noise to those clickers and, in fact,
people got killed as a result of the similarity. I was not there, having
been born a year after my dad came back from the Battle of the Bulge, so I
do not have personal knowledge. Not all history comes from the movies.
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
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