The ceiling of the war film "Saving Private Ryan" finally captain Miller defends the bridge, Miller in order to stop the German Tiger tank about to cross the bridge seriously injured Miller pulled his pistol, in vain to shoot at the tank. This mighty and beautiful pistol is the M1911 pistol that the US army has been installing from World War I to the present.
M1911 with its excellent reliability, let it in the U.S. military in many firearms have an unshakable position, its service in the U.S. military for 74 years (1911 ~ 1985), is still part of the U.S. military special forces of the optional weapon. Almost all gun companies in the United States that can produce pistols have produced M1911 pistols to a greater or lesser extent, such as Colt, Springfield, Rock Island, Remington and so on.
The American gun design world gave birth to a master figure - John Moses Browning. Browning developed 37 pistols, rifles and machine guns during his lifetime, and obtained patents for up to 126 weapons, and Browning was a mountain that his descendants could not overcome in terms of gun design. Browning's father was the owner of a gun shop in Utah, and Browning dismantled various firearms on the bullet pile from an early age, and the advantages and disadvantages of various pistols were counted.
As early as 1897, Browning and his brothers opened their own factory, the Browning Firearms Factory, and three years later developed the first semi-automatic pistol, the Browning M1900 pistol. This pistol is not large, can be mounted in the pocket of pants or hidden under the armpits without being found, especially suitable for assassination or underground work. On 28 June 1914, Archduke Ferdinand, Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, and his wife, Princess Sophia, were both assassinated in Sarajevo, officially igniting the trigger for world war I.
In the early 20th century, the U.S. Army openly tendered for the next generation of high-powered military pistols. Browning improved on the M1900 pistol and created the M1905 pistol using a high-power bullet of 11.43 mm caliber. Since the pistol fired ammunition made by Colt, Browning gave the sample gun to the U.S. Army for testing through Colt.
In the 4 years from 1907 to 1911, the U.S. Army conducted the most rigorous testing of the gun in history, and the M1905 pistol did not have any failure in the continuous firing of 6000 rounds of bullets, even after being soaked in sediment and sewage. What is even more surprising to the military is that the M1905 pistol uses 11.43 mm of large-caliber ammunition, which can completely lose the enemy's combat effectiveness as long as it hits the target, which can be called "the cannon in the pistol".
In the end, the M1905 pistol completely overwhelmed the products of the other 5 companies, winning orders from the U.S. Army. In 1911, Browning handed over the fine-tuned new gun to the military, which named it the Colt M1911 pistol, a cross-era weapon that officially entered active service in the U.S. military. In the 1920s, U.S. arms manufacturers dumped large quantities of weapons, including the M1911 pistol, into China through official and smuggling channels.
It is worth mentioning that in "Saving Private Ryan", it is not the pistol that explodes the German tank, but the Mustang fighter that flashes in the sky. Many people think that a pistol can explode a Tiger tank, which is more than China's anti-Japanese drama, and it is an American anti-German drama. Why American war movies don't watch the drama, because they are indeed a war won by strength.
