From: Rick v100 (rickv100@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2006 - 05:26:32 PST
how can they tell given the static nature of the WWI
battlefield would have large amounts of brass casings
in the area?
The downside and on topic was the dismal failure of
the Sargent York gun system.
Rick
--- Everette <194cbteng@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> mandatory MV content - if needed most widly used MV
> military has was used
> by Cpt. York
>
> Read article in Memphis, Tn. paper that professors
> from Middle state Tenn.
> University are 90%+ sure they found the site where
> Cpl. York captured and
> killed the German troops in WWI that caused him to
> be awarded the
> Congressional Medal of Honor, and promoted to Sgt.
> They found shell casings
> from 303 and various other rounds, both spent and
> unspent - only thing not
> found were shell casings from pistol he used,
> consensus was that ground was
> so damp they might not have survived the years that
> have passed.
>
>
>
> Deo adiuvante
>
>
>
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