I have a 92 year old friend that was at the Bulge. He spent alot of his time working in motor pools and driving parts around in a topless jeep. He comes down to the rifle club just about every day at around 9:00 for coffee and maybe a donut (if theres an old-fashioned one with no icing.) The other day the subject of using M1917 S&W revolvers carried over into WWII came up, following a brief argument about whether or not any Krags saw service in WWII. He mentioned that once while he was on guard duty at a motor pool he was handed a .45acp revolver and a handful of bullets, he couldn't remember whether or not it was a Smith or a Colt.
Since this is sort of a combination thread I'll mention his favorite story. He was driving around after the bulge with some parts, he told us that they were not allowed to use the windshield because if the windshield was hit and shattered it was hazardous. He and his buddy were freezing their butts off in this jeep and banging around on a makeshift road or tank trail and he admits they were a bit turned around...Lost. He said they came around a corner in the trail and here they were staring down the barrel of an German Panzer, he said he slammed the jeep to a stop and threw it in reverse so fast that his buddy flew out over the hood and he had to grab his pants to keep him from going completely over the front end of the jeep. They finally got to where they needed to be and he rushed in to tell about the Panzer, he was told it had been knocked out by aircraft and was well known in the area. He said that as far as he was concerned he couldn't tell if it was an 88 or whatever it just looked really big when your staring right down the barrel.