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by xl_target » Sun Dec 06, 2009 9:42 am
Ngrewal, like you I loved the series too. I think Dick used the M1 as it was the issued main battle rifle of the US army at the time. M2 carbines were issued to paratroopers too but maybe not to his unit? I think a lot of those guys who saw a lot of action in Ww2 just wanted to get on with their lives after the war. The US also massively downsized the army after the war. I believe Dick Winter was offered a position in the post war army but his job offer from Nix (Nixon) was probably better for him.
Dick Winter and Easy Company's assault on the four gun battery near Normandy is still taught (in the US army) as the classic example of a small unit assault on an entrenched defensive position.
“Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense” — Winston Churchill, Oct 29, 1941