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Originally Posted by JCF
i've studied the US Civil War since I was a kid, and visited battlefields...
But when I fixed the bayonet on this M42 (1852) my understanding of what those men then faced instantly changed...
and not hard to tell which holes were made by the .69 [buck and] ball
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Seriously! Plus, if you got even superficially stuck with that bayonet a day after someone else got stuck with it...You died, or at least lost a limb, 14 days later from an infection. Brutal time for a young soldier.
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