Interesting Time Magazine Article from March 1941 on the Garand

[JD09]

I dont know if this has been posted before:

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,884292,00.html

 

[Scrivener]

Thank God we never adopted that POS - which would have been worse; all that ammo being wasted by spray-n-pray recruits, or no fire at all when it failed?

General Ripley was right to resist newfangled gadgets like Spencers and Henrys in the Civil War. Elan and cold steel are all that's required. Just ask the French...........