Comments by "chaosXpert" (@chaosXP3RT) on "Garand Thumb"
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@Garthbrooks4756 You'll find out that lots of soldiers, even in combat, have limited knowledge and a lot it comes from rumors. There was an American Vietnam War veteran who said that his Mossberg 500 saved his life. When they pressed him to explain, he said every day when they went on patrol, at a certain spot, a bell could be heard ringing as they walked past. Him and some of his buddies theorized that the Viet Cong were using the bell to signal when the Americans were nearby so they could ambush them so one day he shot his Mossberg 500 into the jungle. When they asked if he killed anyone, he said he didn't know, but they never heard the bell again. During WWII, while the Western Allies were advancing from Normandy to the Netherlands, the Americans in their Sherman tanks only encountered German Tiger tanks 4 times. Because of rumors, propaganda and fear, the American G.I. had a tendency to report every tank barrel sticking out from behind a barn, house, tree, etc. as a German Tiger because that was the biggest thing they feared. They also interestingly conducted studies on the aftermath of the Falaise pocket, where Germans were surrounded and crushed by Allied forces. The study found that British pilots preforming ground-attack runs vastly under-reported the amount of vehicles they hit and destroyed. The American pilots in the same role had the opposite problem of vastly over-estimating how many vehicles they hit and destroyed. So while we should respect soldiers for what they do, their perspectives in war are not always accurate. So yeah, every battle is the coldest.
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