On Nov 29, 12:42*am, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:

* *It's a quick way to kill someone up close, when yo either have to
keep quiet, or are out of ammo.

Bayonets let you control captives with graded, non-lethal force backed
by a bullet if necessary.

I've read that they are a preferred weapon for close-up, nighttime
furball fights when you can't identify friend from foe at any
distance. In Herbert McBride's WW1 autobio the trench-raiding machine
gunners would bring only their spare barrels to use as clubs. They
wanted live prisoners to interrogate.

jsw