hey I play an online WWII video game called Day of Defeat, and in it you have to chose what class you wish to play and each class has a different main weapon. a couple of the classes(these are if you're on the american team) are Rifleman-M1 Assault-Tommygun Support-B.A.R. OK, to the point. they recently took away the Colt sidearms for the rifleman class, and I was wondering if the bulk of our troops in fact didn't carry a sidearm. It doesn't seem to make sense(atleast to me) that most of our troops didn't carry a sidearm. I always just thought everyone did. Could anyone verify this one way or the other?
Unless you were a part of an elite or special group (military police, for example) in the uniformed services, only the senior enlisted men and officers carried sidearms. This is still true to a certain extent. In the field it was not uncommon in a unit to have someone who found a way to add a sidearm to their gear. It was not part of their supplied weaponry and would not have been tolerated anywhere but in a combat situation.
Hello, I was previously registered as silentmidgetassasin, but because i have not been around for a while, i had to create an new account. Bigiceman is correct. Most soldiers did not carry sidearms. However, many liked using a .45 more than their regular weapon and were able to get pistols either to supplement or replace their usual weapons. Officers were the ones given pistols, the theory being that they had to give hand signals, as well as read maps, etc, therefore needing a free hand.
