Word: garands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ralph Bennett of Haversville, Conn., a rifleman in the lead platoon, began firing his Garand when the Chinese attacked. His squad mates saw him go down, like a tackled halfback, under a swarm of enemy. When four husky Chinese began dragging him away, the other Americans held their fire for fear of hitting their own man. But Bennett wrenched free, knocked one Chinese down, and ran for his own outfit, with several Reds in hot pursuit. Bennett yelled for covering fire, and a U.S. machine gunner dropped the Chinese who were chasing him. Five yards from the shelter...
...last week, the new weapons hurled rifle grenades 250 yds., sent tracers pinging off a tank at 400 yds. without a miss. In target contests, the new .30-cals. poured out fire twice as fast and just as accurately as the Army's standard 30-cal. M-1 Garand rifle. At 100 yds., their steel-core slugs plowed through half-inch armor plate; at 1,200 yds. they riddled a steel helmet; at 2,000 yds. they ripped through six inches of wooden planking. Fitted with 20-shot clips, the new automatic rifles could rattle off their entire magazines...
...Directions. A light, hard-hitting automatic rifle is something that many allied infantrymen have been praying for ever since World War II. Combat experience showed that bulky semi-automatic rifles (i.e., one shot for each trigger pull), like the 10-lb. U.S. Garand, were too heavy, and fired too slowly for close-in defense. What the infantry wanted was a light rifle that would shoot accurately at long range, and could also double as a Tommy gun for close-in combat...
...different directions in search of such a weapon. U.S. Ordnance men decided that the standard .30-cal. slug was the smallest size with enough stopping power. They got to work on a light-weight cartridge (the T-65) that was half an inch shorter than the standard Garand cartridge and weighed about 16% less, without sacrificing any weight in the bullet itself. The light rifle* that they built around the stubby new shell fires as heavy a slug with the same muzzle velocity (about 2,800 ft. per second) as the Garand, but weighs 1¾ Ibs. less...
...equipped with an optical sight. On the firing range it seemed fairly impressive: it rattled off 84 rounds per minute, ripped steel helmets at 600 yards and punched through 46 inches of planking at 100 yards. The .280 has a 20-round clip; the .30-cal. U.S. Garand only an 8-round clip. But the .280 has less punch and less range than the heftier Garand or the Russian Tokarev (caliber .299994) rifle-and given the new Garand 20-shot clip, it has no higher a rate of fire...