U.S. At War: Turnabout
G.I. snipers, shooting Japs from the third floor of a ruined Manila building, decided to ration their occasional targets. The riflemen lined up by rank, and each man had three shots. If a gunner missed, he lost his next turn. Then an impatient sergeant, losing all restraint, fired an entire Browning automatic rifle clip of 20 shots at one Jap. His outraged mates passed sentence: no shooting at all for three days.
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