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[R-DEV]AfterDune wrote:Marksman class didn't exist until somewhere after the Vietnam war, so we made the marksman more of a recon kit.

American Infantry platoons were issued 1 Springfield rifle with scope, to be issued to the best rifleman. Sometimes there was some extra trainings, mostly not.

Interesting. What was this guy called?


Still, it's one Springfield per platoon, pretty much the amount of snipers per team in PR.

I don't know what the correct term was or if there was one.

No luck in my research. I did found a sexy sniper with an interesting story though.

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Doing some research I found an operational manual of the American army WWII, this is the manual FM 21-75, published in Feb - 06-1944


From page # 169 they begin to explain how it was identified a potential sniper, they called expert rifleman and how they operated in WWII.

FM21 75 Scouting Patrolling and Sniping 1944


Ts4ever he is correct in your statements.

In a US rifle squad during ww2 the best shooter was issued a springfield with a sniper scope and one with a BAR and the rest with m1 garands.

DavviZ wrote:In a US rifle squad during ww2 the best shooter was issued a springfield with a sniper scope and one with a BAR and the rest with m1 garands.

Only every third rifle squad had a sniper rifle. However, every squad had a BAR and a rifle grenade launcher.

OriginalWarrior wrote:The recoil on the M1 Garand is WAY too high. Should be about half of what it is now.

No, all weapons should kick like this gun. That are not piew piew laser guns.
(PR negativ example: Tavor from the Israelis)

I still think that the ships should be facing the beach with landing crafts on both sides. Blue is ladders. Green is landing craft. Red is the ship.