Comments by "Big Blue" (@bigblue6917) on "American Battlefield Trust" channel.

  1. A good sharpshooter would never fall for that trick. You see a hat with nothing below it you knew is was not real. In Spain during the Napoleonic War neither side would shoot at anything like that because they knew it was a trick. What a British sharpshooter would do is attach the bayonette to the rifle, skewer a loaf of bread, a rifles daily ration, with the bayonette and then place his hat on the top. So when the rifle was raised up it looked like a head was beneath the hat. From then on any clever idea was referred to as 'using your loaf.' Interestingly the average age for a US soldier in WW2 was also 25 years old.
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