"Bob Klahn -> Dan Ceppa"  wrote in
news:28223$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 DC>> Cannon and handguns pretty wuch made such weapons obsolete.
 DC>>  Then again, there's the bayonette.  ISTR that there was an
 DC>>  actual bayonette charge in WWII.  I'm not sure if they
 DC>>  still teach it any more.

 BK>   I wouldn't know. I do know there was some hand to hand in WWII,
 BK>   don't know if it included a bayonette charge.

Japanese troops were notorious for these, running right into American
machine gun and M1 fire.

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