During World War I, the United States Army experimented with a number of different machine gun designs, and the news reports of the tests got a young inventor thinking about, and eventually designing, ...

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United States Gen. George Patton famously said, “In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised.” Few weapons share quite the same notoriety as the M1 Garand—used by the U.S ...

The historical significance of the M1 Garand can’t be overstated. It was the first semi-automatic military rifle to be employed as a standard shoulder weapon, a point that was quite notable at the ...

The M1 Garand service rifle was one of the outstanding American weapons of the twentieth century. Simple, sturdy, and well designed for its time, the Garand gave U.S. Army soldiers and Marines far ...

In January 1945, just months before Germany's unconditional surrender in World War Two, George S. Patton famously declared the M1 Garand as "the greatest battle implement ever devised." The accolade ...