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Spoils of War. In Los Angeles, the sheriff arrested a twelve-year-old boy for stealing a Garand rifle, cartridge belt, gas mask, helmet, motorcycle first-aid kit, field bag, a pair of binoculars, four bayo nets and scabbards, several pairs of trousers and several shirts from an Army camp. Said the boy: "I wanted to have some souvenirs to give to my grand children." Tyger, Tyger. In Los Angeles, Leo Winter was fined $500 for misapplication of ration points in spite of his explanation that he and his wife and his cat had eaten 495 Ib. of meat between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Last week the Army told L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc. to stop turning out Springfield rifles and go back to making typewriters. Reason: the Army is now getting enough Garand rifles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Longer Needed | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...enemy tanks with these iron pineapples. In the South Pacific, rifle grenades (used mainly against enemy positions) neatly filled the range between the hand grenade and the 60-mm. mortar. Previously fired only from the old Springfield, the rifle grenade has now been fitted for firing with the Garand and the carbine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MARINES: Trooper's Cannon | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

...classes of 200 (25% is average mortality among O.C.s), students start off with six weeks' intensive study of the infantryman's 13 weapons, from Garand to bazooka. They learn what each can and cannot do; sometimes they aim a weapon two hours before firing. They also learn to live harder and in more orderly fashion than they knew even in the Army's tough school of the enlisted soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - T.I.S. | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Garand rifles need no longer be fired to line up the sights for factory tests. A new method of testing the sights, developed in the General Electric laboratories, uses a plug holding a mirror inserted in the barrel to line up images of front and rear sights on a screen. Time, ammunition and manpower are thus saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wartime Technology, May 10, 1943 | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

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