The Liberation of The Philippines by Jon Diamond

Author:Jon Diamond
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History / Military / World War II
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2021-10-30T00:00:00+00:00

American infantrymen with a variety of personal weapons are shown here covering the advance of a flamethrower unit against an enemy bunker in the Cabaruan Hills near Urdaneta on Luzon on 27 January 1945. Urdaneta is in Luzon’s Pangasinan Province south-east of the US Sixth Army’s 9 January amphibious landing zones at Lingayen Gulf. One soldier is firing his Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) (background), while another (right, background) has his 0.30in-calibre semi-automatic M1 carbine ready to fire. The soldier in the foreground (right) has a bayonet attached to his 0.30-06 M1 semi-automatic Garand rifle. The BAR, a portable squad-level light automatic weapon, was not able to deliver a sustained fire rate from its twenty-round trapezoidal-shaped magazine. The M1 Garand replaced the Springfield Model 1903 bolt-action rifle with its distribution starting in 1940. The M1 Garand fired at a rate of forty to fifty rounds per minute. It weighed 9.6lb (unloaded), a disadvantage for jungle combats. The M1 Carbine semiautomatic 0.30in-calibre rifle was produced in late 1941 for non-front-line troops as it was more effective (fifteen- or thirty-round detachable magazine) than a pistol and lighter (5.2lb unloaded) and more compact than the M1 Garand. Its combat use was favoured at close quarters such as in urban streets or jungle. The carbine fired forty-five rounds per minute. (NARA)

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