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Old 09-23-2012, 07:28 PM
Graebarde Graebarde is offline
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Originally Posted by Michael Lewis View Post
I was reading Pegasus Bridge and it gave a report where a group of Brits were killed by the blast wave of a shell. The ghastly thing about it was that they were playing cards in a foxhole and were basically frozen in that position. My cousin who's in the army said that a .50 machine gun can kill you if it even hits a foot away from your head from the shock wave.

How does the blast wave kill?


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Michael
You know reading this again I KNOW what blast killed those boys. It was the RSM that caught them playing cards and not a shell. The shell story is the coverup to protect the innocent. <grin>
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