JD> Well, yes and no. If you say that the M1911 .45 knocked out the Moros,
 JD> then no. It was the M1917 .45 DA revolver that sent the vine wrapped
 JD> bodies back down the hill in the Phillipine insurrection.
 JD> The "DA" was rushed into service there because the M1911 was not ready 
to 
 JD> be issued.
Uhhh, Jackson, you might want to check on when the U.S Military was having 
problems with the Moros.  Since the M1917 model revolver came about around 
six years after the M1911 did, it probably was not ready to be issued during 
the Phillipine insurrection either. :-)  As I remember, .45 cal single action 
revolvers were re-issued from reserves since the .38 cal revolvers that were 
current issue were not able to reliably stop a Moro (who was sometimes on 
drugs) before he had hacked one of our soldiers to death.  This is what 
spurred the Army's search for a .45 cal pistol.  They learned the hard way a 
.38 cal round did not have adequate stopping power, which of course is why 
they have come full circle to the 9mm.
Brien
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