Throughout history, with the advancement of weapons technology from catapults and canons to unmanned combat aerial vehicles, there has long been a belief that the infantryman would be rendered ...

Those rifles were slightly shorter in length than the rifles that had been carried in the trenches of World War ... Garand, operators could eject a partially expended clip and put in a full one.

The M1 Garand was manufactured under contract from the military. U.S. industrial might turn the rifle out by the millions.