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The M1 Garand or M1 rifle [nb 1] is a semi-automatic rifle that was the service rifle of the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War. The rifle is chambered for the .30-06 Springfield cartridge and is named after its Canadian-American designer, John Garand .
David Marshall Williams was born in Cumberland County, North Carolina, the son of James Claude Williams by his second wife, Laura Susan Kornegay.He was the eldest of seven children and the younger half brother of the five surviving children from the first marriage of James Claude Williams to Eula Lee Breece.
The M1 carbine was also used by various law enforcement agencies and prison guards and was prominently carried by riot police during the civil unrest of the late 1960s and early 1970s; until it was replaced in those roles by more modern .223 caliber semi-automatic rifles such as the Ruger Mini-14 and the Colt AR-15-type rifles in the late 1970s ...
The 155 mm gun M1 was a 155 millimeter caliber field gun developed and used by the United States military. Nicknamed "Long Tom" (an appellation with a long and storied history in U.S. field and naval artillery), it was produced in M1 and M2 variants, later known as the M59 .
Shortly before World War II, the U.S. Army started a "light rifle" project to provide support personnel and rear area units a weapon with more firepower and accuracy than the standard issue M1911A1.45 ACP handgun and half the weight of the standard issue M1 Garand.30-06 rifle or the .45 ACP Thompson submachine gun.
120 mm gun M1, an anti-aircraft gun; 155 mm gun M1, a field artillery gun; 20 mm aircraft gun M1 or French Hispano-Suiza HS.404; 240 mm howitzer M1, WWII; 37 mm gun M1, anti-aircraft; 40 mm automatic gun M1 or Swedish Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60; 57 mm gun M1, or British Ordnance QF 6-pounder; 76 mm gun M1, WWII; 8-inch gun M1, or M115 howitzer
Senator Sheppard, left, Chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Maj. Gen. George A. Lynch, U.S. Chief of Infantry, and Senator A. B. Chandler of Kentucky, inspect the M1941 semi-automatic rifle which competed unsuccessfully against the M1 Garand to become the Army's standard weapon Melvin Johnson and Gen. George Marshall with a disassembled M1941 rifle
Ukraine: 10,000 Grot C16 FB-M1 and A2 variant assault rifles donated to the Ukrainian Armed Forces during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. [1] In 2023, it was announced that an unspecified number of Grot C16 A2 rifles had been ordered by Ukraine, but later on such claims have been denied.