his clicker was rectangular and appeared to be brass colored. Oth, his clicker looked nothing like the one in The Longest Day which I watched the day after this history presentation. So yes there were clickers available but one only has to think about the sounds of battle and being able to hear a clip hit the ground. he demonstrated how he kept it in his trigger finger in such a manner that he could click work quickly transition to the trigger if there is no responding answer. He also had his clicker issued to him prior to the invasion. As a side note he had a CMP-stocked Garand given him by his children. One gentleman, who carried a rifle during the war, was there with some interesting memorabilia. They all brought memorabilia of one sort or another. Last week I escorted a WW 2 vet to our Heinz History Center where several other vets were giving a presentation the school kids.
One of the WW2 D-day movies showed the use of a toy "clicker" sound by paratroopers to identify each other on the dark ground.wonder if that's true. Yep, he got a Purple Heart and a partial pension for that. It was determined to be a "friendly" bullet. It had to be from extremely long range because it didn't penetrate into him very far. He said he was sitting on a stack of ration crates and the bullet hit in the left rear shoulder. He was wounded on Okinawa by a stray bullet while in a rear area.
A good friend of ours who was with Carlton's Raiders for a while and later hit Guam and Okinawa never fired a single round in combat and he was there from the beginning.
so memories weren't that fuzzy.Ī lot of these guys, even the ones that hit the islands, never saw any combat. :) I've heard a number of vets say that they carried 30/30s. He did say that he remembered that it was a 30/30. After showing him my collection we determined he was first issued a 1903 or an 03-A3 then later an M1 Carbine.
My uncle was in the Navy, always at some rear location, and could not remember what weapon he was issued. There were also many who knew very little about weapons, even the weapons they carried. Also, their memories are getting somewhat fuzzy with age. Don't forget that a lot of these stories are being told by vets who never saw any real combat.
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