PinnedAndRecessed
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In "Band of Brothers", the "Crossroads" part, Easy Company is preparing to ambush some Germans.
As Easy Company is preparing, they have the Germans in their sights. At that point, the members of E Co begin sighting in their rifles. They start fiddling with the rear sight knobs.
When I first saw it, I thought it was bogus Hollywood stuff. Now someone says they were merely adjusting for elevation by turning one of the knobs and that that is standard operating procedure.
Question. What are they doing? Is this plausible? Or is it Hollywood?
On the Garand rear sight, is one knob for windage and one knob for elevation? Is it reasonable that they would adjust the sights at that point?
Maybe someone could watch that segment and tell me which knob they turned.
As Easy Company is preparing, they have the Germans in their sights. At that point, the members of E Co begin sighting in their rifles. They start fiddling with the rear sight knobs.
When I first saw it, I thought it was bogus Hollywood stuff. Now someone says they were merely adjusting for elevation by turning one of the knobs and that that is standard operating procedure.
Question. What are they doing? Is this plausible? Or is it Hollywood?
On the Garand rear sight, is one knob for windage and one knob for elevation? Is it reasonable that they would adjust the sights at that point?
Maybe someone could watch that segment and tell me which knob they turned.