Re: Austrian army

"Jim Garner" <an410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

Actually, I have been a runner in the infantry myself, and I DID carry
a rifle. This wasn't in the Bavarian army, but I can't believe the
Bavarians would have done much that was different. I mean, if the enemy
is pouring over the landscape at you and there's no running to be done,
you pick up the rifle and pull the trigger.

Hitler was a HQ messenger, whose job entailed running, jumping and
scrambling from dug-out to dug-out, often under very heavy artillery fire,
to deliver messages when the telephone lines were cut. He was usually behind
the front-line trench, usually in the second or third line of trenches, and
had neither the task of firing or the opportunity to fire at enemy troops.
For this reason, messengers in the German Army in WW1 were usually unarmed,
as weapons would only slow them down. The same applied in the British Army,
too.

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