Lend Lease Garands - What is the history/process of their arrival back to the States?

[Bob Seijas]

RCS is right on the money. Many collectors call any M1 with British Proofs "Lend Lease" -- they are not. In my considered opinion, only the first lot imported by Interarmco can be guaranteed as rifles supplied to England under the Lend Lease Act of March 1941 and suspended about April 1942. They are proofed under the op rod. Later rifles proofed on top of the barrel MAY be LL but usually are not, like the IHCs so marked. That just means they went through the Interarms facility in England as part of the export process. Most were acquired elsewhere in the world.