re: #102 Dopamine Fish

The M1 Garand, while not a perfect weapon by any means, was a revolution on the battlefield in the face of the bolt action Lee-Enfield and Mosin-Nagant rifles on the continent. It gave an American rifle squad the firepower of a European platoon. And that was just a semi-automatic rifle with a relatively small clip. You’d think the demonstration of such superior firepower would be a compelling argument for adopting semi-auto or select-fire weapons of your own, but Hitler was nothing if not stubborn.

The Marines were also very slow to adopt the Garand. It took a few crusty old Gunnies to shoot the shit out of the Japanese at Guadalcanal to convince the Officers to get as many into platoons as they could ship from the States.