Скачать или смотреть Why U.S. Marines Chose the Reliable M1 Garand Over the Flawed Type 100 Submachine Gun

This comprehensive documentary reveals the definitive reasons why U.S. Marines in World War II consistently favored the M1 Garand rifle over the captured Japanese Type 100 Submachine Gun (SMG) throughout the brutal Pacific campaigns. The shocking truth, supported by accounts from Medal of Honor recipients Mitchell Paige and John Basilone and data from Aberdeen Proving Ground, is that the Garand's power and reliability were vastly superior to the Type 100's high rate of fire: the Garand's powerful .30-06 Springfield cartridge (1$\approx 2,656 \text{ ft-lbs}$ of muzzle energy) decisively outclassed the weak 8 mm Nambu round (2$\approx 242 \text{ ft-lbs}$) in jungle warfare, proving that stopping power and the certainty of function mattered more than theoretical modernity.3 This tactical preference was underpinned by overwhelming American industrial superiority, with U.S. factories producing 5.4 million Garands against Japan's paltry 10,000-30,000 Type 100s, solidifying the M1 Garand as, in General Patton's words, "the greatest battle implement ever devised" and a war-winning weapon that validated American democracy's industrial might in battles from Guadalcanal to Okinawa.