Use of Pistols in Combat

[Spartan198]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Really it's not that pistols are useless in combat, but the situations GIs find themselves, pistols are inappropriate and dead weight. It's just one extra thing to worry about to them.

I'm simply conveying what was told to me, and the words were "borderline useless", not "dead weight", "something else to worry about", etc..