On April 22, a memorandum was drafted indicating that the 100 M1 Garand rifles were shipped to the ordnance officer at Fort Benning, Ga., by the Merchant's Mining Company on April 11th.

John Garand’s work on feed mechanisms, driven by Ordnance Dept. mandates, resulted in the now-familiar eight-round en bloc clip shown here loaded into a production M1 rifle.

Among all the critics of the Army's semiautomatic Garand rifle (TIME, May 6, et seq.), none has been more acid than the U. S. Marine Corps. But none was more discreet. Marines confined their ...