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Sep 19, 2020
The true story of how ‘E-Tool’ Smith earned his famous nickname
"The truth is that I never killed anybody with an entrenching tool."
Sep 19, 2020
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 really happened.