Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Michael Squires) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Using the rifle suited to the previous war? Message-ID: <1991Jan7.051306.8491@cbnews.att.com> Date: 7 Jan 91 05:13:06 GMT References: <1991Jan5.021828.27885@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 21 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Michael Squires In article <1991Jan5.021828.27885@cbnews.att.com> Don Newcomb writes: > >cavalry. Many troops abandoned the '03 in favor of the 12 ga. >pump shotgun or Winchester M1908 semi-auto sporting rifle >for use in the trenches. A friend at college in 1966 who had served with the first Marine ground forces in Vietnam told me that his unit used many captured AK-47's when on patrol and left the M14's back at the base. In one of the famous pictures of the recapture of the citadel at Hue after the Tet offensive it is clear that the weapon being carried by a US soldier going over the top is also an AK-47. -- Mike Squires (mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu) 812 855 3974 (w) 812 333 6564 (h) mikes@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu 546 N Park Ridge Rd., Bloomington, IN 47408 Under construction: mikes@sir-alan.cica.indiana.edu