German Intelligence Dismissed Semi-Auto Rifles — Until U.S. Firepower Changed The Western Front
Автор: Deep Dives of WWII
Загружено: 2025-11-20
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September 17, 1944, Siegfried Line near Aachen. Wehrmacht officers watched American infantry advance and called them farmers playing soldier. But every GI carried an M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle firing 8 rounds without reloading, delivering three times the firepower of German Kar98k bolt-action rifles. In 18 minutes, confident German veterans learned why MacArthur called it the greatest implement of battle ever devised. This is the story of how American industrial might and John Garand's revolutionary design changed infantry combat forever, giving every soldier firepower that overwhelmed even the Wehrmacht's finest troops.
In this story:
How Wehrmacht intelligence catastrophically dismissed the M1 Garand as mechanical complexity while America armed 4 million soldiers with semi-automatic rifles
The September 1944 Battle of Siegfried Line where Hauptmann Dieter's regiment suffered 137 casualties in 18 minutes against American infantry firepower
Why German soldiers called the Garand die Amerikaner Maschinengewehr and feared its 40 rounds per minute sustained fire rate
How American factories produced over 4 million Garands while Germany managed only 400,000 semi-automatic rifles during the entire war
The tactical revolution that let American infantry deliver firepower equivalent to three times their numbers against bolt-action equipped enemies
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