Ah, the mytique of the bayonet...

I don't recall the exact details, but I believe it was as the results of the Russo-Japanese war were being studied in the west and the bayonet charge was still seen as the culminating event of any good infantry engagement that the % of soldiers deemed killed by bayonet was something like 3%. To which which an unrepentant Infantry General remarked, "Yes, but they were the decisive ones."