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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 criticisms to barrack-room griping and a few oblique references at Congressional hearings. Reasons: the Corps is part of the Navy, in many matters is therefore subject to the Navy hierarchy, but the Marines get their weapons and ammunition from the War Department, whose ordnance officers developed and cherished the Garand...
Long after the Army had adopted the Garand, the Marines held off, sticking by the tried-&-true Springfield rifle until they could crook their fingers around a suitable semiautomatic. Last November and December the Marines tested four guns: the Springfield; a revamped, improved version of the Army's Garand; Boston Inventor Captain (Marine Corps Reserve) Melvin Maynard Johnson Jr.'s rival semiautomatic; and a new Winchester semiautomatic. Last week the Marine Corps delighted the Army's ordnance officers by officially adopting the Garand as the Corps's standard rifle. Captain Johnson himself (now reasonably content with...
...Garand automatic rifles...
...limits of a rough battlefield, could speedily transport an impressive array of fire power: a modern U. S. Cavalry division's 6,476 horses and 10,100 officers and men should carry, among other things, 9,764 pistols, 942 light & heavy machine guns, 117 artillery pieces, 4,863 Garand rifles...
...Garand and Johnson rifles controversy which has rocked military circles, standardization of airplane specifications, and contract factors such as types offered, price ranges, and penalties for failure of delay of delivery are specific among the difficulties to be brought...