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There were more Garands than carbines authorized for both infantry battalion HHC and infantry regiment HHC, so not sure logic supports your theory. Back to the drawing board.

Superstitions evolve from a series of unverifiable anecdotes, endlessly repeated. The Army tested, investigated, and explored every conceivable element of ground warfare. Instead of endlessly...

Too bad you missed the excellent article in the Fall 2016 GCA Journal covering the subject. You would have seen a textbook case of how historical inquiry is done. Good luck with those voices in your...

Request the service record from NARA. If he stayed in past 1956, it is unavailable except to next of kin. Hope it isn't among the 80% that burned up in 1973. Good luck.
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Math much?

If you're not signed in, you will only see '03_Jouster.jpg' - the last line - instead of the image. Click that line. (I musta not held my tongue just right when I posted.)

In planning my first trip to NARA in College Park to look at WWII U.S. Army records, forum members cplnorton and TDP0311 (aka Steve and Tim) provided lots of useful advice. Most helpful was the...

I'm not a lawyer (don't even own a three piece suit), but I do have a passing familiarity with copyright law. US government records are in the public domain from the moment they're created. The...

One of these would be alright.

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You might want to look into what rifles the 3rd Defense Battalion landed with on Aug 7.

I'm not a Garand guy, so I can't say when SA completely switched over to the new front end, but the SA...

A pretty bold assertion. Can you tell us a bit about how you arrived at that?

In response to this, I provided facts to the contrary. Not finding those facts convenient, you dismissed them with a series of what-ifs. Further, you misread what I said about the near burnt temp...

Slam, I appreciate your research, but you ought to pick up a copy of Brophy's Arsenal of Freedom, containing SA's Annual Reports. It might cause you to rethink some of your conspiracy theories while...

The glider was part of Mission Galveston. It landed near Holdy at 0700 on June 7 (not June 6). It carried 29 members of Co. A, 325th Glider Infantry Regiment, 82AB Div. 14 KIA; the other 15 injured...

Johnny, your link takes you back to this thread. Is that the type of logic you were relying on for your other points? :confused:

A picture can serve as a starting point, or it can answer a trivia...

Ooops! Brophy's Springfield Armory book, not Springfield Rifles. No FY annual reports in the latter.

Steve, the description is a little fuzzy, but take a look at the last entry for the FY39 annual report in Brophy's SA book (p. 331). Are they talking about the Hatcher hole or something else?

Not...

The M1903 and M1903A1 were reclassified as obsolete by OCM 31671, dated 24 July 47.

Member 45B20 on another forum posted the following from another OD source, though he didn't have the exact date:...

I'm trying to get this WWI stuff figured out. The twists and turns that occurred after the totally unprepared US came up with a pretty logical plan to build an army for the European war fascinate me....

It didn't matter. Shipping space, not rifles, was the primary constraint in the first year. The AEF reported that by 31 Dec 17, 183,896 men had arrived in Europe. The rule of thumb in WWI was that a...

You should ask for a refund as it seems to be missing p. 371.

Brophy's SA book shows 39,855 '03 (not '03A3) barrels made there in FY46 (yes, '46).

Could be normal government budget games, but as late as early spring '45, the War Dept was implementing the...

Well said, Johnny. In trying to draw out some of the fine points, my post came across a bit harsh towards you. It didn't come out the way I originally thunk it.

Keep up the good work. I don't know...

The 38,001 number is for the British Empire (excluding Canada), not the UK alone. If there were any Garands provided to the dominions directly or delivered to them through the British, they would...

The USN WWII administrative history noted that the USMC relied on the army for small arms procurement. The SF POE and I believe also the Pacific supply depots were operated jointly, which would have...