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Old 04-02-2020, 07:35 PM
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" Shotguns were feared and reviled in WW1 trench warfare, to a point that German troops frequently executed any Allied soldiers armed with shotguns. "

The Germans threatened to do that, but never did any executions. Pershing set them straight that if anything like that happened, the AEF would adopt a "Take No Prisoners" policy.
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