Word: garands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panic. As it happened, however, last week's closing was marked by little more than nostalgia for such items from armory history as the superbly tooled 1903 Springfield .30 calibre rifle of World War I and the semiautomatic M-1 with which Springfield Master Gunsmith John C. Garand revolutionized infantry firepower in World War II. There was no reason for panic; Springfield no sooner ceased to be Government property than it was transformed into an industrial park and school campus that should keep the city's economy flourishing. More significantly, while phased-out military facilities in other cities...
...with the stock. Moreover, its high sight -necessitated by the carrying handle that serves as the rear sighting plane-means that a dug-in rifleman must expose his head and chest to aim carefully. But the rapid rate of fire more than compensates: in Korea with the slow-firing Garand, less than one-quarter of the troops fired their weapons in battle; in Viet Nam with the M16, everyone fires copiously. Many riflemen lug 600 rounds into battle (v. 72 rounds per man in Korea...
...where 500 Americans and 850 Thais stand watch over $30 million worth of tanks, Jeeps, armored personnel carriers, and artillery, enough to support a U.S. brigade. The Royal Thai Air Force is soon to receive 18 Northrop-built F-5 jet fighters, while the tough Thai infantry's Garand rifles will soon be replaced with light, fast-firing Armalites, which are much better suited to the miasmic conditions of jungle warfare. Radar and reconnaissance planes will add long-range vision to the 14,000-man Thai Navy, and swift patrol boats will give the 1,500 miles of meandering...