Visiting the Springfield Armory Museum, retired inventor John C. Garand inspects an early model of his M1 "Garand," chief combat rifle of World War II and Korea. This article, "Military Rifles: M1 ...
30, M1,” popularly known ... another automatic rifle. However, Garand’s talents were recognized by the Ordnance Dept., and he was hired in 1919 as a gun designer at Springfield Armory to ...
Noted firearms expert Ian Hogg described the operation of the M1 Garand in his book Guns and How They Work, writing: "Originally developed in .276in caliber, it was changed to .30in due to ...
It becomes even harder to argue against the Garand when you consider that no less than General George Smith Patton Jr. deemed her “the greatest battle implement ever devised.” The M1 Garand ...