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Without infantry, armies cannot win wars; without rifles, infantry cannot fight. The U. S. Army therefore thought hard and long before deciding in 1936 to junk its rugged, battle-tried Springfield rifle and adopt a new, rapid-fire, semi-automatic called the Garand (for Inventor John C. Garand, a civilian who works for the War Department). After nearly five years, the Army last week was still using mostly Springfield rifles, and thinking about Garands. Official excuse for this situation: that the Garand has not yet been supplied to the Army because it is still going through a normal process...
...engines with 3,000 h.p. in a single unit soon will be on test; Major George W. Goddard, whose color cameras capable of making pictures at 15,000 ft. altitude and 200 m.p.h. are revolutionizing air reconnaissance. In the army arsenal at Springfield, Mass., is Consulting Engineer John C. Garand, whose semiautomatic, 30-round-per-minute shoulder rifle will, by its increased firepower, vastly affect infantry practice (and increase the hazards of the U. S. and all armies). On paper in the War Department, and partially worked out in the field, is a new infantry division, halved from the present...
Tests given the new Garand (semiautomatic rifle) at the Aberdeen proving grounds in Maryland were so successful that there is prospect of developing a valuable new arm for the infantry. The new rifle approximates the 1903 Springfield in weight and size. It has an automatic ejector to discharge the empty shells and reload, but it is necessary to pull the trigger for every shot...
...inventor of the new rifle is John C. Garand, for many years an employee of the Springfield Arsenal. A War Department memorandum spoke of Mr. Garand's weapon as one that had possibilities for " rapid, accurate and sustained firing from the shoulder, though being at the same time a light, portable gun which can be carried without fatigue by the individual soldier...