How was the M1911 able to keep so many WW2 soldiers alive if it had such terribly low capacity?
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Tom Martin
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How was the M1911 able to keep so many WW2 soldiers alive if it had such terribly low capacity?
When you read a lot of past award decorations, and combat reports as an Officer in the US Army, you might spot interesting things.
Once, in a wooded area, they found a US Army Officer with seven dead Germans around him, each one killed by a single shot from a single .45 wound. He was dead, with his empty .45 near his hand, slide locked back.
The .45 ACP, even in ball is an incredible round.
Perhaps he could have told the story if he’d a few more ready to fire. It wasn’t uncommon to find American GI’s died with empty pistols, revolvers and automatics, by both Germans and Americans. Russians also captured a lot of empty Walthers.