They weren't. Every foot soldier in every army had one. Few were able to get close enough to the enemy to stab anybody with it though. As long as the soldier had ammunition for his bolt action rifle it was far easier to shoot the enemy, as fast as possible before they shot him, than to try to close in and poke them with the bayonet. They were more useful as a big knife around the camp, or for spitting and roasting meat.
NO
No, most people didn't use bayonets in World War 2.
They mostly used muskets and bayonets once they ran out of bullets.
Mostly stopping charges when there was no time to reload, and in any eyeball-to-eyeball conflicts.
yes they did
Both sides used bayonets the Allies and the Central Powers.
NO
No, most people didn't use bayonets in World War 2.
M1 Garands with Bayonets were mainly used to take Japanese positions in the Pacific during World War II
They mostly used muskets and bayonets once they ran out of bullets.
A bayonet is a sharp dagger-like weapon that can be attached to a rifle. This is an example sentence: My uncle had an impressive collection of old rifles and bayonets.
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Mostly stopping charges when there was no time to reload, and in any eyeball-to-eyeball conflicts.
Many weapons were used in battle depending on the actual battle being studied. For example, guns and bayonets were used during World War I and World War II while guns, swords and knives were the main weapons in earlier battles.
A knife attached the the end of a soldiers gun.
yes they did
The last time I was at the memorial trench, I will told the remaining bayonets had been stolen. This was the spring on 2018. I first visited the trench in the late 1960's the bayonets were sticking up out of the ground. No building had been built to protect the trench from the weather. It was just as it has been during the Great War. Today everything changes.kap73p