From: Wayne Harris (papercu@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2006 - 10:56:03 PDT
It is close. See Auto-Ordnance Corporation site at http://www.auto-ordnance.com for a better timeline. Even testing could/would be wartime use even if none made it to the front lines. "Trench brooms" could be interchangeable with machine gun, shotguns and hand grenades. Myself I would prefer the "longer" handle of the Thompson and even longer handle of the grenade for my broom. :-) Wayne
> From: rickv100@yahoo.com
> Subject: [MV] Someone care to correct history
>
> This is taken verbatim from the Smithsonian American
> History museum website about the Thompson machine gun.
>
>
> "During World War I, machine guns were heavy,
> crew-served weapons. Their operation required several
> soldiers. Even so-called light machine guns could not
> easily be handled by single soldiers. To meet the need
> for an individual rapid-fire weapon, several inventors
> devised submachine guns. Light enough for one-man use,
> the new weapons were nicknamed "trench brooms" because
> they swept the trenches clear of enemy troops. The
> Thompson submachine gun was the handwork of John
> Taliaferro Thompson (West Point Class of 1882). It saw
> only limited wartime use, but the "Tommy gun" in the
> hands of police and gangsters achieved notoriety as
> "the gun that made the twenties roar." "
>
> Is it me or is this way wrong.
>
> Trench brooms to me are Trench shotguns and the
> Thompson didn't come out until after WWI.
>
> Rick
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