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Originally Posted by ChalkLine
There a picture in WW2 of an Australian soldier with a bren gun literally chopping a palm tree to bits to deal with a sniper.
Not much maneuverability when you're stuck up in a tree
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The Japanese had a very different mindset though. They'd leave stay-behind guys literally roped into the tree tops. They weren't expected to survive very long, just take out a bunch of the enemy before death.