Hello all, here is today's article posted on TheArmoryLife.com. It is titled “War Stories: Bill the Tommygunner” and can be found at https://www.thearmorylife.com/war-stories-bill-the-tommygunner/.
War Stories: Bill the Tommygunner
- Thread starter Mike H.
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My Dad (14th Air Force in China) was issued a Thompson. Dad was a quail hunter, had never fired. Rifle in his life. In basic he struggled to even qualify with a Garand. With the Thompson however the “range” was a field you walked through with pop up targets-snap shooting. Dad was the best wing shot I’ve ever seen, and on the Thompson range he easily made Expert. Dad liked to shoot the Thompson but hated toting it around. In China they were required to have a weapon with them all the time. Dad wound up salvaging a 1911 that was written off in a crash and carried it daily for the last 16 months he was in country.