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To: Timber Rattler

In BREAKOUT, Martin Russ’ incredible telling of the Chosin Campaign, he writes of the carbine’s inability to generate stopping power in extreme cold that was compounded when the target was wearing multiple thick layers.


18 posted on 06/07/2012 6:22:55 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: wtc911
In BREAKOUT, Martin Russ’ incredible telling of the Chosin Campaign, he writes of the carbine’s inability to generate stopping power in extreme cold that was compounded when the target was wearing multiple thick layers.

Thanks for pointing me to that book. It absolutely confirms what my uncle told me before he died.

80 posted on 06/07/2012 4:44:31 PM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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