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...Navy, they get their small arms from the War Department, and wartime supply problems would be simplified if both services used the same rifle. Last winter the Marine Corps decided to have the rifle matter out once and for all. A board was appointed to test the bolt-action Springfield and three semi-automatic rifles (Garand, Winchester, Johnson). The board included such acknowledged experts as Lieut. Colonel William W. Ashurst, a crack rifleman, and Lieut. Colonel Merritt A. Edson, who had earned Marine Corps fame in Nicaragua, hunting down Sandinistas. The Winchester, barely out of the laboratory, was never...
...rifles were doused in mud "of light consistency." Results: "The M-1903 [Springfield] rifle can be operated. However, the bolt became harder to operate as the test progressed ... The M-I [Garand] rifles would not function and the longer an attempt was made to operate the bolt by hand the harder it became to open...
...troops have landed through heavy surf sufficient to break completely over men and equipment, and immediately engage in combat on a sandy beach." Results: both Garands failed to operate as semi-automatic rifles (i.e., reload automatically after each round). One failed completely and the firer had to hammer the bolt with a mallet; "the other operated by hand with extreme difficulty." The Springfields continued to work, with slight difficulty. On these salt water tests, the Garand was rated last, the Springfield first. (See pictures of how bullets are made...
Integration and flow were last week being worked out swiftly at Rouge. But human hands were needed to sort out, punch, weld, rivet, bolt, assemble. If there was a strike, human hands would close into fists, and sorting, bolting, assembling would cease...
...conclusion is inescapable that Mr. Ingersoll was more concerned with making a good news story than reporting facts. Apparently he intended to show that Hitler had shot his bolt; and failed, that the English had taken the worst Hitler could offer, and survived. It would be nice to believe this, but apparently we would just be kidding ourselves...