Tinpig
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Great story.
But hard to imagine that an army as thorough as the Wehrmacht's Heer never zeroed their rifles.
Tinpig
But hard to imagine that an army as thorough as the Wehrmacht's Heer never zeroed their rifles.
Tinpig
Sorry, but I must disagree here about one point mentioned. Enola Gay, in my mind, played a very large part in ending the suffering on both sides of WWII. If we had not have dropped that bomb and the one on Nagasaki from Box Car, the war would most likely continued for another 6 months at least, killing far more people on both sides. As it was, at the time of the atom bomb raids on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the fire bombing raids that took place nightly over Japan were killing upwards of 100,000 Japanese civilians per night, as many as either atomic bomb raid, and we were losing people too from Kamakazi attacks and planes being shot down over target. The hard core Japanese military wound never have surrendered if those bombs would not have been dropped. It was a wake up call for the Japanese and as I said, ultimately saved many, many lives.
I consider it to be a visceral, sobering reminder of humanity's darkest hour.
I hope everyone with a Mosin Nagant can sleep well at night knowing that the Soviets murdered more people than the Nazis could ever dream of killing.