Belleau Wood

Belleau Wood

This one is also from Bustednuckles, so now I gotta go look up Belleau Wood. Wikipedia has long page about the WW1 battle that was fought there. History Net has a good summary of the issues raised by Germany against the U. S. Marines' use of shotguns. It points up the difference between combat and terrorism:

[Brigadier General Samuel T.] Ansell finally turned to Article 23(e) of the Hague Conventions, which prohibited the use of weapons or ammunition designed to cause “unnecessary suffering.” That article was not aimed at “efficiency in killing,” Ansell argued, but against “cruelty and terrorism.” Invoking the German word schrecklichkeit, which means frightfulness or horror, Ansell pointed to saw-toothed bayonets, flamethrowers, and chlorine gas as examples of German weapons that caused unnecessary suffering.