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• Warfare History Network - Garand�s Wonder Weapon
• NRA Museums - Harrington and Richardson M1 Semi Automatic Rifle
• Marine Corps Association - “This is My Rifle” (PDF)
• HistoryNet - How an M1 Garand Rifle Provided a Portal to the Past
• NPS History Electronic Library and Archive - M1 “Garand,” U.S. Rifle caliber .30 (PDF)
• Garand Collectors Association - M1 Garand History

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Garand rifle, semiautomatic, gas-operated .30-calibre rifle adopted by the U.S. Army in 1936. It was developed by John C. Garand, a civilian engineer employed at the Springfield Armory, Springfield, Mass. The Garand was the first semiautomatic military rifle used as a standard combat shoulder weapon. It was the basic U.S. infantry weapon in both World War II and the Korean War. More than 5,000,000 M1s were manufactured.

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The Garand weighed 9.5 pounds (4.3 kg) and was fed from an eight-round clip. Its 24-inch (61-centimetre) barrel was rifled with four grooves. Located next to the muzzle on the underside of the barrel was the small gas port that fed some of the propellant gases into a small cylinder that operated the autoloading mechanism.

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