Pictured: A bunch of Marines on Iwo Jima not fighting on their own. in the hypothetical should actually have five to nine other soldiers with him, and it’s unlikely that more than one or two of them would be out of ammo at the same time. Second, soldiers typically fight as a group, so the G.I. But there are a couple issues with the theory.įirst, in the chaos of combat, it would be uncommon for an enemy to hear the clip ejecting over the sound of the fight. The theory states that that’s when the third soldier jumps up and kills you. Your eighth shot reinforces the man’s headache, but it also causes the ping, telling the attentive third Japanese soldier that you’re completely out of ammo. With seven shots, you kill one and wound another. You drop into a good firing position and start throwing rounds down range.
Army troops fighting in the streets of Seoul, Korea. You catch a bit of movement and realize the small mounds on the ground in front of you are actually enemy helmets poking up from a trench. You’re moving up on a suspected Japanese position with a fully loaded M1 Garand. To get a grip on the controversy, imagine being a young G.I. (Photo: YouTube)īut as YouTuber “Bloke on the Range” shows in the video below, it’s actually very unlikely that the enemy would gain any real advantage from the M1 Garand’s sound.Īnd many veterans of World War II interviewed after the wars said they actually preferred to have the sound as a useful reminder to reload. As the theory goes, that ping told the enemy that a rifle was empty, giving them a chance to leap up and kill the now defenseless American.
shores into Europe and the Pacific in World War II and into the forests of Korea the following decade.īut the iconic rifle is typically discussed alongside its “fatal flaw” - it emitted a distinctive ping when the clip, usually an eight-round strip, was ejected with the final cartridge it held. The beloved M1 Garand Rifle carried the deadly end of American foreign policy from U.S.
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