They called it Madness— Until his “Homemade Rifle Tune” Killed 11 Germans Without Jamming скачать в хорошем качестве

They called it Madness— Until his “Homemade Rifle Tune” Killed 11 Germans Without Jamming

November 12, 1944. Belgian farmhouse. 17 minutes of continuous fire. 130 rounds. 11 Germans dead. Zero malfunctions. Every armorer said it was impossible—the M1 Garand should have warped, seized, and failed after 24 rounds sustained fire. But Private Martin Dvorak had done something the manual explicitly forbade. He modified his rifle's gas system and wrapped the barrel in cosmoline-soaked parachute cord to redistribute heat. His squad leader threatened court-martial. Three weeks later, those same modifications were being quietly replicated across the entire regiment. This is the true story of a Czech machinist's son who understood thermodynamics better than Army doctrine. How he held a farmhouse with 4 men against a German platoon. Why the Army never officially acknowledged his technique—even as it spread to four divisions by 1945. And why his rifle, serial number 3488539, was refurbished back to "factory specifications" in 1951, erasing all evidence. The manual said impossible. Physics said otherwise.