My Dad was one - not a combat officer but a surgeon about a mile behind the lines. Even as a medical officer he was issued a .45. Said he couldn't hit squat with it. He got a Luger and said he liked it much better and could actually hit things with it.
He did like the 1911 since it made a good club. He was a boxer in college and pretty good at handling physical confrontations. He stayed in Europe until 1946 and he said after the war a lot of the "German boys" (he was about 32 years old when the war ended) were pretty disgruntled by the outcome and there were some random assaults on American soldiers but he felt more confident walking the streets of Frankfurt with his "club".
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
