Who brings a knife to a gun-fight?

[Tomsdad]

Originally Posted by Sword-dancer

Tueller Drill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDPlWAq-11I

In WWI the soldiers improvised Weapons for Close Quarter, then the armies reintroduced the dagger for fighting in the trenches.

AFAIK the Gurkhas used their kukris in WWII in Close combat.

Both very short LoS situations.

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Sword-dancer

AFAIK the Gurkhas used their kukris in WWII in Close combat.

Also, Australians and New Zealanders notoriously used fixed bayonets in WWII.

[Purple Haze]

The British won the battles of Goose Green and Mount Tumbledown with bayonet charges (Falklands 1982), and a skirmish near Basra (Iraq 2004).

[Agemegos]

Originally Posted by Purple Haze

The British won the battles of Goose Green and Mount Tumbledown with bayonet charges (Falklands 1982), and a skirmish near Basra (Iraq 2004).

Yes, and besides:

Australians won the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 with a mounted bayonet charge against infantry in trenches with machineguns.

Australians and New Zealanders won the Battle of 42nd Street on Crete in 1941 with a bayonet charge against German paratroopers who outnumbered them two to one. Inflicted a casualty ratio of over five to one, too.

Bayonets rock.

[Anders]

Granted, but don't we remember all these because they were exceptions? You don't hear about the times they charged with bayonets and were cut down by machine gun fire before they had moved ten yards.