Inland M1A1 serial # 194619

[firstflabn]

Thanks for the update. Somewhere around here I have an undated photo of a carbine 'disassembly line' at Augusta. The photo doesn't show any M1A1s, but I'm sure they would have been included.

The 1953 edition of TM9-1276 included the grip screw replacement requirement, so that could help put an end date on your stock rebuild stamp if the MWO had indeed been cancelled in '45. This TM references technical bulletins from 1949, 1950, and 1951. Would be interesting to see if the grip screw replacement is mentioned in any of them. No cancellation date is written on the other four carbine MWOs (1, 3, 4, & 5) from the same file at NARA.

This 1953 edition also contains the instruction to remove the highwood portion. Not sure if this is the first directive to perform that task.

I don't want to suggest the late '40s Ordnance Dept necessarily did anything consistently. With massive leftover heaps of materiel and deeply slashed budgets and manpower, haphazard would be the expected order of the day.

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