M1 Garand

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Here's a poster from WWII. Goes right along with our topic.

 

http://www.olive-drab.com/gallery/description_0078.php

 

I was introduced to the M-1 Garand 1943 Tent City, Miami Beach, Florida. 400 Tents, 8 men to a tent. I had 3 years in uniform. 18 months as flying cadet and 18 months as Infantry man. In Tent City I fired M-1 at a large target that someone would hold a disc on the end of a pole showing where you hit the target, I got a 142 score. Does any one know if that score is good, or bad , or normal. The last I seen a M-1 Garand was in 1946 in Taegu, Korea , it was dunked in a tub of sticky dark solution and packed in a box with other M-1's. I did bringe back a 3 1/2 foot Japanese Sword, the handel sticking out of my barrack bag, no one cared abouty it. My brother-in-law brought back from Bougainville a ugley 18 inch. knife.

 

papa Art