Did the Garand Ping have any actual consequences on the battlefield? It seems like it would tell your enemy exactly when to launch their attack in any close quarters combat scenario, as the sound makes it obvious you've ran out of ammo.
>>64685138No. Fuck your mother.
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>>64685138Yes. 6 million American soldiers were imprisoned during WW2 because of the fatal flaw of this rifle. There are a number of journals from Americans, Germans, and Japanese that mention how once the ping was heard, enemy soldiers were able to leisurely walk right up to the garand-wielder and snatch the empty rifle right out of their hands before taking them prisoner.
>>64685159This.My grandfather survived, because he heard the ping then immediately rushed the American position to surrender and beg for food not made from sawdust.
>>64685138Ignore the trolling by the garand defense force fudds.Yes, the ping is complete retardation and one among the many other flawed design choices on that gun. It’s a shit gun.
I know that this is a low effort troll thread but>from no guns country>finally be able to shoot a garand in a trip>bang bang bang bang click>where is the famous PING?>I didnt hear it !!!is this normal?
>>64685168Very funny, enemy combatants were actually known to have surrendered immediately after hearing the PING. This was due to the soldiers having MASSIVE uncontrollable erections due to superior rifle design.
>>64685239You are from a ping free generation.If you , as a foreigner shoot the Garand enough, you will come to fear the ping. It seems that only Yanks, Some Canadians, and a shockingly disturbing number of Italians are immune from "the Ping".
>>64685193Most combat occurred at 100+ meters, in the rare exceptions during close combat where an enemy soldier could actually hear a Garand ping through the din of battle, it's semi auto fire and rapid reload capability still severely outperformed the 19th century antique rifles still issued standard by every other army
Yes, that's why the M1 ping clicker was developed to exploit the enemy's tendency to charge upon hearing the characteristic noise of an empty clipazine. It was forbidden for deployment to the PTO as there were concerns that captured or copied examples would be used by the Japanese to confuse Chinese troops by calling their name.
>>64685138Fuck yamudda
>>64685138Yeah, there we go, APC destroyed, mission accomplished!
>>64685138Yes, because infantry fought alone during WW2, not in squads, so if as a kraut or a jap you heard a ping, that means there was no incoming fire for a few seconds.
>>64685138Gunshots are too loud, and multiple rifles in the fight would completely negate this.
>>64685157I doubt that actually happened.And I doubt that an empty clip thrown even makes a similar sound.
>>64688575Lmao
>>64685157>War FactWelp there it is lads, insurmountable proof
>>64685138>Did the Garand Ping have any actual consequences on the battlefield?Yes. Met a lady who was a decorated member of a marquis and active resistance fighter in France who helped support Pattons 3rd Army in it's advance. There are cobbled streets in the villages in the region and she told me that the Germans used to wait until they head the American guns go ping when they spat out the holder for their ammunition and then throw grenades and poinnted at a low wall in front of a church where four young GIs had got shredded that they had tried to keep one alive in teh Church who was in bits but he bled out before a jeep could collect him.She was cool, met her in her 80s and she could still drink and joke. She spent two years living in an armed unit in the oak woods in the region after one of her family was shot in a reprisals round up.Fun fact they used make shaped charges using the curve in the bottle of wine bottles and they could go through the armour on German half tracks.New another French old boy who grew up as a teen in a marquis camp avoiding Nazi labour consciption and fucking loved GIs who drew the short straw and had to crawl past melice (local recuited gestapo) partols to blow up a train line. Got to see his very cool hoarde of milsurp including a thompson.
>>64690060>curve in the bottom bottle of wine bottlesjust clarifying.
>>64685138>Did the Garand Ping have any actual consequences on the battlefieldOf course no, most soldiers from this time were near deaf anyway
>>64690073Most Germans stationed in small town France had never fired a shot in anger and got stationned there by string pulling.
