Originally Posted by SouthWestPacificVet

Hello Jeff,

Well you fight with what you are issued, you use what's at hand, hopefully it's loaded and working when you need it. The old '03's did their bit because that's what we carried in '42, by Jan. '43 the M1's were becoming available for one reason or another.

As far as a 'developmental improvement" goes, the M1 was like going from a Model A to a V8. Two or three men with M1's could concentrate fire on a position almost as effectively as a BAR. Distance to target on those islands could be from arms length to 3-4-500 yards down a strip of beach, or to the tops of occupied palms.

Originally Posted by JCFalkenbergIII

The Japanese seemed to do quite well with them.