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The Dark Reason the M1911 Pistol Is Still in Service
This pistol is over a hundred years old. It fought in the trenches of the First World War. It crossed the beaches of Normandy. It killed men in Korean rice patties, Vietnamese jungles, Iraqi streets, and Afghan mountains. And yet, certain units refused to let it go for decades after it was officially supposed to be gone.
When you find out what those units have in common, what kind of fighting they do, and what happened on a beach in the Pacific that proved once and for all what this pistol could do that nothing else could, you’ll understand why a design that old outlasted everything the modern world threw at it. This is the real story of the M1911, not the one you’ve heard a 100 times.
