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- From: erudnick@pica.army.mil (FSAC-SID)
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- Subject: Re: Anti-aircraft
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:59:39 GMT
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- From "Edward J. Rudnicki" (FSAC-SID) <erudnick@pica.army.mil>
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- Jim Heath writes:
- #Well, Michener in "The Bridges at Toko-Ri" (sp?) has a US Navy jet being
- #shot down by a Chinese (?) soldier with a burp gun (submachine gun,
- #machine pistol - uses pistol ammo). 'Course that was fiction, I don't
- #know if it happened in real life. I doubt that a pistol bullet could get
- #to the pilot, unless he flew into it at high speed. I have heard that
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- That hypothetical Chinese soldier would most likely have been using a
- PPSh-41 or a PPS-42/43, chambering the 7.62x25mm Type P Tokarev cartridge.
- This is a high velocity, highly penetrative round, so maybe....
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- Robert (?) Scott, in "God is My Co-Pilot", has a particularly vivid
- description of a strafing mission in his P-40. He had come upon a company
- of Japanese in marching order on a road. As he proceeded to attack them,
- instead of taking cover they stopped and began firing at him while still
- in formation. After machine-gunning them he looked to see the results,
- and saw only a few on their feet, still in formation, and still firing.
- The Japanese 7.7mm Type 99 rifle had swing-out lead computing "wings" on
- the rear sight for antiaircraft use, so this may have been expected.
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- Ed Rudnicki erudnick@pica.army.mil All disclaimers apply
- "War must be looked upon as a business, and subject, like any other business,
- to business principles. War is the business of destruction of life and
- property of an enemy.....The most deadly and destructive implements of war
- are the most humane, and the producers of them may justly be looked upon as
- humanitarians." ----- Hudson Maxim (the other Maxim)
-