My friends father fought the germans in Italy during WWII.Sometime in the winter toward the end of the war they were in the Italian Alps,very,very cold he said.The came to a town and got to the bank before the krauts had a chance to rob it and leave.He said there was a fierce fire fight at close range.He ran into a german in a building at 20 or 30 feet.They both had all the clothes that they owned on.GI overcoat,germans had one they called a greatcoat.The german had a 9mm submachine gun,my friends dad had a 45 cal thompson submachine gun.They both stitched each other across the chest.The kraut died,the 9mm did not completly penetrate the GI overcoat.