Of What Use Is A Mere Pistol?
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 3 months ago
Danish resistance fighters disarming Germans.
The picture appears to be legitimate. I’m reminded of two things. First, a comment on TCJ.
At the end of WWII, a German prisoner who knew English quite well asked my father if he could just see a .45 acp cartridge. He asked why they exploded when they hit. My father explained that they didn’t. The guy then showed him a large exit wound on his leg from a .45 slug the German took during the retreat from Paris.
Second, while I can’t seem to locate it at the moment, Mike Vanderboegh had a very good writeup on the utility of a mere pistol. I’m sure some enterprising reader will find and link it for us in the comments. After all, I have the best readers on the interwebz.
Mike Vanderbeogh’s article was “What good can a Handgun do against an Army?”
https://www.usacarry.com/forums/politics-and-news/11161-what-good-can-handgun-do-against-army.html
This link had better formatting and the pictures:
http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2008/07/vanderboegh-handgun-against-army-ten.html
Does anyone else miss reading Vanderboegh?
I have seen a similar photo – may have been the same incident taken from a different angle – as the cover photo of a Danish book on their Resistance movement. Those men had guts.
Mike was a daily read and an inspiration
Friday August 10th was the second anniversary of Mike’s death. I’m glad to see that there are some here who miss him as much as I do.
This isn’t the Vanderboegh piece, but illustrates the utility of a “mere pistol”: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/Holocaust/warsaw-uprising.html
Dutchman6 lives on.