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从诺底战役后就可以装备伞兵,但好象也不有提到运用于空降.如<兄弟连>下图:
<FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" size=2>第4集-Replacements中,28分6秒就出现手持BAR的下士(属Randleman-"Bull"的班组)
哪位兄弟帮翻译一下面的E文:
<FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" size=2><EM>The B.A.R. was considered too akward to jump with, due to its weight and size. It also wasn't listed on the Parachute Infantry Regiment TO&E of February 1944.Used them, perhaps?There were B.A.R.'s used by the Glider infantry, who came in by glider or by landingcraft and were more kitted out likeregular infantry. Also, there may have been some B.A.R.'s dropped in equipment bundles but there is no photographic evidence to acknowledge this, nor the use of the B.A.R. by 101st airborne paratroopers during de opening stages of the Normandy invasion. There are some accounts of 101st troopers clearly stating they either found B.A.R.'s in equipmentbundles or crashed gliders, or traded/got them from 'leg' glidermen. Some of these acounts take place as early in the campaign as D-night.
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<EM>So,
During the jump - NO (certainly not on their person!)
During the initial battles - POSSIBLE
During the Normandy campaign - POSSIBLE
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<EM>The 82nd airborne?
Yes, there is photographic evidence of 82nd troopers with BAR's in Normandy, and there is the debriefing tranSCRIPT in which Col. Ekman, CO 505th PIR, tells they did "jump" with some BAR's. The tranSCRIPT tells of the wish of Col. Ekman,CO 505th PIR/82nd AB to, in retrospect, be equipped with BAR's in LEGBAGS rather than the M1919A4 (or A6, which isunlikely but debateable, as is the use of the new bazooka during Normandy, but that's another issue entirely) which indeed a (heavy) weapons platoon, as Col. Ekman puts it, would have jumped with on their person:
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<EM>Colonel Ekman continues--I think it is better to use BAR's in leg packs in place of machine guns during the actualdrop. You can move out with BAR's in place of machine guns and come back later for the guns which would be droppedin bundles. "A" Company was delayed in moving out as they couldn't find their bundles immediately.
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<EM>So, he was saying to merely switch BAR in equipment bundles with MG in legbags, for the next combat jump. It is therefore, IMHO, safe to assume that still troopers didnt jump on D-night with BARs on their persons. Or atleast sofar - the text goes further:
"The weapons section we had contained machine guns in the squad, we jumped with some BAR'S, but would like toreplace the machine guns with BAR'S, because looking for the machine guns holds us back at first.
"So what is he saying? He isnt saying they jumped with BAR on their person. It is known that someheavy weapons sections, or atleast in the 82nd, could have jumped with BARs. Debateable, however, most likelyin equipment bundles! A fact that can be found in the aforementioned section of text stated above.
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<FONT style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal" size=2><EM>Furthermore, when looking at the Airborne TO&E dating February 1944, the TO&E still in use by D-Day, the only listing for issued BAR is 42 units to the Glider Infantry Regiment of a A/B division, 8 to the QM Company of the particular division. It states a total of 92 units, including stockpile. The PIR simply didnt get issued any BARs.Like I said, there is some photographic evidence of 82nd troopers using BARs on/after D-Day, but not one photograph of troopers gearing up or loading on the C47, either of the 82nd or the 101st for that matter. </EM>
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