"Garand" redirects here. For other uses, see Garand (disambiguation).
U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30, M1
M1 Garand rifle from the collection of the Swedish Army Museum, Stockholm
Type
Semi-automatic rifle
Place of origin
United States
Service history
In service
1936–1957 (as the standard U.S. service rifle)[1]
1940s–present (other countries)
Used by
See Users
Wars
World War II
Chinese Civil War
Indonesian National Revolution
Korean War
1948 Arab–Israeli War
Hukbalahap Rebellion[2]
Indo-Pakistani Wars
First Indochina War
Algerian War[3]
Suez Crisis
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
1958 Lebanon crisis
Cuban Revolution[4]
Bay of Pigs Invasion[5]
Vietnam War
Laotian Civil War
1964 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
Dominican Civil War[6]
Six-Day War[7]
Football War
Cambodian Civil War
Black September[8]
Sandinista Revolution
Angolan Civil War
Lebanese Civil War
Iran–Iraq War
War in Afghanistan
First Liberian Civil War
Gulf War
The Troubles[9]
Operation Uphold Democracy
Iraq War
Syrian civil war
Production history
Designer
John C. Garand
Designed
1928
Manufacturer
Springfield Armory
Winchester
Harrington & Richardson
International Harvester
Beretta
Breda[10]
F.M.A.P.
Springfield Armory, Inc. (civilian)
McCann Industries (civilian)
Unit cost
About $85 (during World War II) (equivalent to $1,500 in 2023)
Produced
1934–1957
No. built
5,468,772[11]
Variants
See Variants
Specifications
Mass
9.5 lb (4.31 kg) to 11.6 lb (5.3 kg)
Length
43.5 in (1,100 mm)
Barrel length
24 in (609.6 mm)
Cartridge
.30-06 Springfield
7.62×51mm NATO
Action
Gas-operated, closed rotating bolt
Rate of fire
40–50 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity
2,800 ft/s (853 m/s)
Effective firing range
500 yd (457 m)[12]
Feed system
8-round en bloc clip, internal box magazine[13]
Sights
Rear: adjustable aperture
Front: wing protected post
The M1 Garand or M1 rifle[nb 1] is a semi-automatic rifle that was the service rifle of the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War.
The rifle is chambered for the .30-06 Springfield cartridge and is named after its Canadian-American designer, John Garand. It was the first standard-issue autoloading rifle for the United States.[14] By most accounts, the M1 rifle performed well. General George S. Patton called it "the greatest battle implement ever devised".[15][16] The M1 replaced the bolt-action M1903 Springfield as the U.S. service rifle in 1936,[17] and was itself replaced by the selective-fire M14 rifle on March 26, 1958.[18]
^U.S. Department of the Interior. (n.d.). Springfield Armory: The best battle implement ever devised (U.S. National Park Service). National Park Service. Retrieved February 18, 2023, from https://www.nps.gov/articles/springfieldarmoryww2.htm Archived 2022-10-05 at the Wayback Machine
^Thompson, Leroy (February 20, 2013). The M1903 Springfield Rifle. Weapon 23. Osprey Publishing. p. 63. ISBN 9781780960111.
^"L'armement français en A.F.N." Gazette des Armes (in French). No. 220. March 1992. pp. 12–16.
^McNab, Chris (2002). 20th Century Military Uniforms (2nd ed.). Kent: Grange Books. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-84013-476-6.
^de Quesada, Alejandro (January 10, 2009). The Bay of Pigs: Cuba 1961. Elite 166. Osprey Publishing. pp. 60–61. ISBN 978-1-84603-323-0.
^Yates, Lawrence A. (July 1988). Power Pack: U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1966(PDF). Leavenworth Papers, Number 15. United States Army Command and General Staff College. p. 123.
^Laffin, John (June 15, 1982). Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars 1948–73. Men-at-Arms 128. Osprey Publishing. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-85045-451-2.
^Katz, Sam (March 24, 1988). Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars (2). Men-at-Arms 128. Osprey Publishing. pp. 40–41. ISBN 978-0-85045-800-8.
^Taylor, Peter (1997). Provos The IRA & Sinn Féin. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 62. ISBN 978-1-84908-621-9.
^Ball, Bill (June 2004). "The Beretta "Type E" Garand, Variations on John Garand's Combat Proven M1" (PDF). The Small Arms Review. Vol. 7, no. 9. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 27, 2011.
^Thompson, Leroy (2012). The M1 Garand. Oxford: Osprey. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-84908-621-9.
^"U.S. Department of the Army Technical Manual No. 9-1005-222-12" (PDF). March 17, 1969. p. 13. Retrieved May 18, 2007 – via Biggerhammer.net.
^Fortier, D. M. (Ed.). (2021, April 15). The M1 Garand rifle, what made it great?. Firearms News. https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/m1-garand-rifle-what-made-it-great/391738
^Hogg, Ian V.; Weeks, John (1977). "US Rifle, Caliber .30in ('Garand'), M1-M1E9, MiC, M1D, T26". Military Small-Arms of the 20th Century (2nd ed.). London: Arms & Armour Press. p. 183. ISBN 978-0-88254-436-6.
^"The Best Battle Implement Ever Devised". Springfield Armory. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
^Pendergast, Sara; Pendergast, Tom (2000). "Firearms". St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. St. James Press. p. 102. ISBN 978-1-55862-405-4.
^Seijas, Bob. "History of the M1 Garand Rifle". Garand Collectors Association. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
^Canfield, Bruce (April 28, 2016). "The M14 Rifle: John Garand's Final Legacy". American Rifleman. Retrieved December 3, 2019.
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