>British infantryman of 1914 has the exact same weapon as British infantryman of 1939
>Yet for some reason a infantry section of 1939 is considered to have vastly more combat power than a section of 1914
Explain gays? There is no rational excuse for this
Your pic is the reason you dingdong.
The 1939 infantryman has air support, tank support, and maybe a radio he can call in artillery.
Also, a helmet, which 1914 man did not have.
>air support, tank support, and maybe a radio he can call in artillery
None of which is organic to an infantry section
except the radio
Imagine 1917 but with a radio
No, but it still exists
Bren gun section, 2-in mortar secrion, piat section, mechanised with bren carriers
These, plus not having to walk everywhere, or rely on horse drawn carriage.
Squad level lmgs, company level mortars and hmgs, dedicated transportation options and in general better infantry training and battle drill than either "shoot this target really really accurately" or "just fucking dump lead downrange"
I though the English people only used boats
For comparison a British battalion in WWI consisted of a 30 officers and 977 of all other ranks, consisting of a headquarters, 4 infantry companies and 1 machine gun section. A machine gun section consisted of a total of... 2 machine guns.
I wasn't aware the Bren gun was available in 1914, you cock monger.
everything but the rifle was drastically improved in every way.
The machine gun is an overrated weapon.
>British infantryman of 1914 has the exact same weapon as British infantryman of 1939
>Posts an image of a weapon that didn't exist in 1914 being equipped by a WW2 soldier
You fucking retard
Checkmate, atheist.
>ww1 infantry carried radios
were you born stupid or did you achieve this goal after years of hard work slamming your head into brick walls?
Literally just how they were trained. Your average platoon in 1939 was trained to use cover, concealment, LMGs, smoke, and arty/mortar support to take enemy positions. NCOs we’re trained tk better keep track of their now very well dispersed formations and attacks, officers could use this dispersion to counter the effectiveness of artillery. Warfare changed. You could argue the difference between 1914 and 1939 (in reality 1918) is that they learned to properly conduct modern infantry tactics as we know it.
improvement in section tactics and improvement in supporting assets (armor, air support, artillery, engineering etc)