All of the rifles that were broken were stripped down to individual parts and the parts that were still serviceable were dumped into bins. Never heard about dumping the parts in a trash can, but I did read a very interesting account in the GCA Journal about how Garands in the field were repaired. Sorry, don't mean to be a pedant, but there were no IHC Garands in WWII, IHC didn't start making Garands until 1952. We be a cool project to buy like 100 Garands and match them up as best as possible hahaha. So alot of the rifles were miss matched before the men event went to war. It could have been replaces with a part from any of the other company's.Īlso during boot camp when the soldiers were learning how to take apart and put there M1's back together the drill Sargent would tell the men to take there M1's apart and put all the parts in a Trash can, dump all the parts in a big pile and tell them to put there guns back together. Say for example if a guy in WWII had an M1 Garand made by International Harvester and a part breaks. On mine the receiver is Winchester and everything else is Springfield. Its hard to find an M1 that has all the same parts from the same company.
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