Garand inspects an early model of his M1 "Garand," chief combat rifle of World War II and Korea. This article, "Military Rifles: M1 to M14" appeared originally in the in the March 1974 issue of ...

The M1 Garand Was Also Quickly Outdated The timing of Patton's letter to Campbell is also notable as he wrote it in January 1945, by which time his soldiers would have certainly encountered the ...

Few weapons share quite the same notoriety as the M1 Garand—used by the U.S. Military from 1936-1957, which meant it would’ve been involved in just about every conflict that spanned from World ...

M1 Garand, Serial No. 3706 ... Although that project will go down in U.S. military history as a colossal failure, it didn't stop the U.S. military. In the early 1920s, two prominent designers ...

McKinney charged the nest with his M1 and killed seven enemy soldiers, emptying his rifle at close range. He then fought off another three in hand-to-hand combat using his Garand as a club.

the government-chartered organization has brought in nearly $200 million in revenue selling surplus M1 Garand rifles, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. Military.com ...

Soldiers likely used their Zippos ... Despite casual claims that the average M1 Garand is a superbly accurate rifle, it’s nothing special in standard-issue configuration. It won’t win benchrest ...

Military collectibles from World War II have surpassed their status as mere artifacts and become tangible snippets of history ...

The M1 Carbine is one of the most recognizable and long-serving military firearms in the world. Though many consider it to be the anemic kid brother of the legendary M1 Garand, the carbine has its own ...

However, Kennedy’s M1 Garand rifle is from neither his presidency nor his time in the Navy. In 1957, the U.S. military introduced the M14 as its standard-issue service rifle and started to phase ...

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is well known as the go-to place to buy surplus military firearms ... from selling tens of thousands of M1 Garand rifles over the past decade.

The M1 Garand provided greater firepower to the infantryman than the bolt action rifles, but the German military responded with its own semi-automatic rifle, the K43/G43, as well as the ...