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He went on to tell me that they had Vickers machine guns set up in the sandhills behind sandbags and when the Japanese marines came ashore they mowed them down in their hundreds. He said that it was such a massacre that him and the boys became very frightened at what they were doing......... He said they felt ashamed after, when they looked at all the bodies.
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Just re-reading The Winter War by William R. Trotter, which made me think of this thread, he has this to say about the Finnish machin-gun crews mowing down the masses ranks of Soviet infantry.
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In some battles the Finnish machine gunners held their fire until the range was down to fifty meters; the butchery was dreadful.
In a number of cases Finnish machine gunners had to be evacuated due to stress.
They had become emotionally unstable from having to perform such mindless slaughter day after day.
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