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By James Clark Sep 19, 2020

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The true story of how ‘E-Tool’ Smith earned his famous nickname

"The truth is that I never killed anybody with an entrenching tool."

By James Clark Sep 19, 2020

History

The true story of how ‘E-Tool’ Smith earned his famous nickname

There’s a famous Marine Corps story from the Vietnam War, where a Marine got a confirmed kill with a small collapsible shovel, called an entrenching tool, or E-tool. Here's what...