Hi All: I am a new member that is old. I worked in the Springfield Armory in Springfield Mass. after High School classes , all day saturday, school vacation and Holidays as an inspector in the Garand Bolt Milling Department during 1944 and 1945. After graduation I was to be drafted,so I enlisted, and Army taught me how to use a Garand M1 and sent me overseas for 30 months. I was a Springfield 1903 collector and graduated to Garand M1's.:thup: