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Old June 11, 2019, 01:12 PM   #8
DMK
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How much training did pistol shooters get ? Charlie Askins wrote that for 5 weeks or so before D-Day he conducted a very hurried course for the M1911A1, he said most of the officers who went though it had NEVER fired it before.
From what I've beeen reading, it depended on the time frame and unit. Some guys who went in early in the war got hooked up with local units (some National Guard, some regular Army) who did their own training. Some guys never even did boot camp, the local unit just trained them as they saw fit. Some of the units were doing maneuvers down south in LA and TN as well.These guys got a lot more range time.

Later in the war it was more organized and they formed new units as guys came in from the draft. This training was more organized but also expedited.

Most of the guys I've read about had basic hands on familiarization and firing of most of the small arms and then qualified with whatever weapon they were issued. Mortar guys might qual with an M1 carbine for example and then go off for the mortar training, same for radio guys, etc.

There was one guy who wrote about the weather being so stormy in training that they couldn't even see the targets at the range. Nobody in the company qualified, but they just shipped them to England anyway because there was a war on and they couldn't hold things up. They finally did qualify in England.
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