Post by oskar2ndchev on Jan 25, 2012 11:12:48 GMT -8
It seems that range accidents happened during WWI. From Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger:
(The Storm of Steel, Howard Fertig 1996. Chapter 16, At the Cojeul River, page 240 in this edition.)
We practised skirmishing in line and open warfare and did a lot of shooting with the rifle and machine gun. As all the villages behind the line were crammed to the attics, every little slope was in use as a range, so that the bullets whistled about the country very much as in a battle. A machine-gunner of my company shot the C.O. of another unit off his horse while he was reviewing some troops. Fortunately the wound was not mortal, and equally fortunately the deed was not clearly brought home to us.
(The Storm of Steel, Howard Fertig 1996. Chapter 16, At the Cojeul River, page 240 in this edition.)
