Weapons of West Point -16- Mobile Machine Gun
0A discussion of two trends in weapons design and development, which placed automatic fires into the infantry squad and platoon. The range firing demonstration had a German MG-34 and a US Browning Automatic rifle (4 Sailors case). The differences between the two weapons is obvious. But LTC Alphin, as an expert in utilization of firearms, carried the discussion into the different organization and different tactical doctrine which the two armies used at the squad and platoon level. This included organization charts for the German and the US infantry squad. This emphasized the changes in organization and tactical doctrine which an intelligent leader uses in order to get the maximum benefit from the weapons available to him.
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