How common was hand to hand combat in World War II?

WWII primarily, did not involve hand-to-hand combat, a rifle will usually take someone down before they are close enough to use a melee weapon and smgs or shotguns are much more effective in close-quarters. read more

Last stand type situations, while not very common could devolve into hand-to-hand combat if one side ran out of ammunition and decided to die fighting rather than surrender. One example would be the Brazilian Cobras Fumantes (Trans. Smoking Snakes). read more

The veterans of the 7th Division are engaging in more hand-to-hand combat than in all their other three campaigns put together. The veterans of the 7th Division are engaging in more hand-to-hand combat than in all their other three campaigns put together. read more

This is serious hand to hand combat by thortrains in TypesBooks - Non-fiction, Knife, and World War II This is a particularly brutal manual of hand to hand combat that was compiled by a US Army unit during World War II. read more