Re: Atchisson & Able Team...

[Gurth <Gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to Mike Fortey, on Thu, 26 Jul 2001 the word on the street was...

> Interestingly, I've recentlt read a book written by a
> chappy who ran UK sniping operations in WWI

"Sniping in France" by Hesketh-Prichard?

> and he
> made a comment along the lines of 'Thank God that the
> Germans never started using shotguns during the war or
> the wounds would have been horrific'; which struck me
> as a bizarre comment based as it was in a conflict
> involving trench warfare and gas

Even during that war, there was a lot of objection against the Americans'
use of 12 gauge shotguns for trench clearing. I believe that a clause did
get put into the Geneva Convention to prevent their use in future; still,
as the use of any and all poisonous gases in war was prohibited by the
Hague Convention as well, I don't think this makes much of an impression...

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