Word: garands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plans to replace her old .303-caL, bolt-action Lee-Enfield rifle, which dates back, to the Boer War, with a lighter, faster, .280-cal. automatic model. U.S. experts had hoped the British would adopt a -3O-cal. weapon capable of firing the same ammunition as the U.S. Garand...
Rifle: the lightweight, .30-cal. T25 with a tremendous (750 rounds-a-minute) rate of fire. Two and a half pounds lighter than the standard infantryman's Garand, the T25 uses a 20-round clip, can be fired automatically or singleshot. Its purpose: to replace not only the carbine and rifle, but also the submachine gun and possibly, when it gets a better barrel, the reliable but heavy (19 lbs.) Browning automatic rifle as well...
...dark of Thursday morning the Reds almost made it. One Chinese threw a dud grenade into a G.I.'s foxhole, then walloped him with a rifle. The G.I. clubbed the Chinese to death with his Garand. Red engineers blew a hole in the barbed wire with a bangalore torpedo. As Chinese infantry charged in, Sergeant Stewart Oshell's machine-gunners opened up, and 78 enemy bodies plugged...
Another urgent problem is to carry out last year's decision to switch from British to U.S. arms. As fast as her present British-type equipment can be turned over to West European troops, Canada is replacing it with U.S. arms. Five thousand M-1 Garand rifles arrived recently to replace .303 Enfield rifles with which the Canadians helped outfit a Netherlands infantry division in December. Last week, at Eisen hower's request, a Luxembourg field artillery regiment was being supplied with two dozen 25-pounders; 105-mm. howitzers will take their place. When standardization is complete, Canadian...
...that could not have exceeded a few hundred yards an hour. Some of them wept with pain as they walked, others lay sprawled grotesquely on the frozen stubble by the roadside, in the deathlike sleep of utter exhaustion. One R.O.K. rifleman was crawling on his hands and knees, his Garand still slung across his back, when some G.I.s with an I. and R. (Intelligence and Reconnaissance) platoon found him and packed him off in a jeep...