lend lease garand

[musketshooter]

Please post some pictures showing the barrel date, serial number, rear sight and Brit proofs. I am not sure when the lend-lease program was suspended, but I think it was shortly after Pearl Harbor. There were many Garands that were surplused out of Brittain in the '50s. Brit proofs alone do not identify a lend-lease rifle.

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[Joe W]

Please post some pictures showing the barrel date, serial number, rear sight and Brit proofs. I am not sure when the lend-lease program was suspended, but I think it was shortly after Pearl Harbor. There were many Garands that were surplused out of Brittain in the '50s. Brit proofs alone do not identify a lend-lease rifle.

According to Bruce Canfield the Lend Lease program began in mid 1941 and continued well into the war. At least until late 1942.
If your rifle is proofed in the chamber area behind the op-rod than it is one of the first batch of L.L. rifles Sam Cummings purchased and is a L.L. rifle. If it is marked on the barrel between the gas cylinder rings IT MAY be L.L. but further study of the rifle and proof markings are needed. But Lend Lease or not you still need the M3 tool and the case you have for the butt trap.