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Initial testing included a new 7mm (.276 caliber) cartridge since the Army believed that if the cartridge were lighter, the average soldier could carry a lot more ammo. Although his design wasn’t adopted, he was put in charge of developing a semi-automatic rifle. He was working in the Springfield Armory in Massachusetts when he submitted a design entry for the Army’s Light Machine Gun competition. Garand moved to the United States from Canada as a young child. Function properly without any need for special oil, grease, or other material applied to the cartridge.Be simple, strong, compact, and easy to manufacture.Be fed by a magazine for quick reloading.

Be well-balanced and adapted to shoulder firing.

The Ordnance Department required that any new design would have to: The Army was looking for the infantry to have more firepower than the standard bolt-action rifle. This new design was to replace the M1903 Springfield which had been in service since 1903. In 1921, the Ordnance Department announced that it had eight principal requirements for the next generation of semi-automatic weapons. During WWI the infantrymen were stuck with the standard 1903 Springfield rifle which was a bolt-action, five-shot weapon in. Those plans were delayed by the onset of World War I. Army had been tinkering with the idea of giving infantrymen a semi-automatic rifle since 1909. Archives) Upgrading the Infantryman’s Firepower Garand demonstrates the loading of the M1 rifle that carried his name.

The rifle was easy to operate and maintain, and most importantly rugged and reliable.

Its average cost in 1945 was $26 per rifle. Patton famously called the M1 Garand “the greatest battle implement ever devised.” It was simple and inexpensive to produce. The rifle served as the main infantry weapon of the U.S.

It served until 1958 when it was replaced by the M14 rifle which used basically the same operating system. Army as its main battle rifle on January 9, 1936. The Garand served from the steaming jungles of the Pacific to the sands of North Africa and across Europe. The United States military was the only WWII combatant that armed its standard infantrymen with a semi-automatic rifle. The M1 Garand rifle was one of the most iconic weapons of World War II.