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Mike Reese's avatar

"Captain Robert Dickerson’s weapons platoon would trade out their light machine guns for the heavier M1919 machine gun, providing parity in range." I would be interested in what light machinegun was being used before being replaced by the M1919 (A4 or A6) Browning? I thought they started with the M1919A4 and used it until 1945 when the M1919A6 was available.

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Thanks for this. I began a deep dive into the subject of glider troops after choosing to do a British Army glider infantry officer impression for a reenactment (in a side eye acknowledgment of the many reenactors who choose to do a rather unconvincing paratrooper impression). Despite now having about six shelf feet of books on the glider troops this packed more new learning into fewer words than any of my previous reads. BTW, I just finished reading The Clay Pigeons of St Lo, and as the 1/115th neared their objective of St Lo they also adopted this attack column tactic of sending their attacking element forward on a very narrow front which increased their penetration of the German defenses and usually persuaded the very under strength Germans to pull back. N

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