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Post by gunfreak on Oct 12, 2005 9:09:34 GMT -5
OK, I got a standard 1911 mag pocket, for 2 single stack mags, i don't have any room on my pistol belt, and I'm gonna switch to a Cartridge belt anyway, where theres is now place to put it,
I was thinking of sowing/tieing it to the shoulder if my webbing, ope sit side of my rifle shoulder, but i don't think anybody did that in ww2. so i was wondering if any of you guys know if smart places to put it that was used during ww2.
except of course for the belt..
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Post by CPL. Mills 2nd Rangers on Oct 12, 2005 16:59:44 GMT -5
you can put the pouch on the back of the cartridge belt, thats what Tom and I do.
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Post by 2nd bat on Oct 23, 2005 23:18:55 GMT -5
Most common GIs didn't have the luxury of a sidearm. Certainly not riflemen armed with Garands or Springfields. The carbine was intended intially to be a replacement for the .45 for crewserved and rear escelon soldiers who might find themselves in combat in a rapidly changing mechanized battle, hence Carbine equipped soldiers likewise wouldn't have a pistol. With that said .45s ended up as side arms through normal battle field attrition and swapping around. The logical place would be on the suspenders (angled sideways) or if you're a big fellow on the belt spacers between cartridge pouches in the back. (not very accessabe however!)
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Post by gunfreak on Oct 24, 2005 7:49:22 GMT -5
I read some were that the % of sidearms in the lower ranks was higher for airborne and Rangers..
i remember reading this web log about some guys in the 82nd after the Africa assault, and almost 50 guys bet on the poker game and won a crate of 70 1911.
and after the war 30 of them was still alive(or still in the fight) and like 20 of them said that the sidearm saved there life one time or another during the war..
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Post by Gordak on Nov 3, 2005 20:49:05 GMT -5
I heard that certain airborne units in the normandy landings tried to go in with a .45 for every man. i dont recall where i read that tho. I did meet an 82nd AB vet who got two krauts with his .45 while he was still hanging in his harness (he crashed through a roof) He has since passed away, but I might see his wife again, and I'll be sure to ask her what Rank he was on D-day.
For airsoft, I think everyone should have .45s. becasue its fun! even if you dont use it in the big battles, they are lots of fun for the pistol only games that we have at the end of the day. -Gordak
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Post by savoy6 on Nov 4, 2005 0:19:52 GMT -5
just to let ya'll know.. several issues of the army's "combat lessons learned" series has the recommendation that airborne troops be individualy armed with .45s as well as their primary weapons as far back as late '43...so the idea had been in the pipeline for a good bit before D-Day...
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Post by Dan Long on Nov 11, 2005 19:35:34 GMT -5
Try putting it under your left arm on your side if you're right handed. If you're left handed, then do just the opposite of that. Everybody has a different place that they like their side arm best, just remember that you're going to need to access it in a hurry if you're in a tight spot.
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