[OldSgt.]

"expert in the army with the Garand which is not surprising"

All on this thread have said this without saying it. The best firearm is the one each person is proficient with. My
this or that, is no better if it cannot be used effectively when needed.

Bottom Line!

[yarddog]

Daddy was in the combat engineers in WWII. We just had to put him in a nursing home and I was going through some of his old papers and found a large (about 3 feet square) illustrated on front and back, history of his outfit.

Although yellowed it is in great shape. Unfortunately there are two more pages which someone else must have gotten. This one does have all the members of the 208th Egnineers Combat Battalion listed tho.

Also the history from January 1945 till the end of the war. I remember Daddy telling me one of his sergeants shot down a Messerschmidt with a BAR and sure enough, there is an illustration of a soldier shooting down (actually looks like a Focke Wulf) in the cartoon.

[Mobilemitter]

"All on this thread have said this without saying it. The best firearm is the one each person is proficient with. My this or that, is no better if it cannot be used effectively when needed"

From my earlier post : "Here is where the user needs to evaluate themselves and the level of commitment they do (or don't) have to develop the skills necessary to become proficient with their "tool" of choice."