Navy Garand MK1MOD1

[cplstevennorton]

My father shot first in his class and earned the Sharpshooter award at Great Lakes induction center in, I think, '43, using the Garand. Would that have been a 7.62 or a 30-06 Garand, do you suppose?


Bob

Are you sure it was a Garand? I've been pulling a lot of Navy docs and they really didn't get them in number till they adopted the M1 in 1945.

In 1943, the M1903 was still the official Navy rifle.

Also at this time they didn't have 7.62 Cal till post WWII. I think it was developed in the early 50's.

The 7.62 Garand was later than that even.

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In fact I didn't know this, but most of training they just used those Parris Dunn Training rifles. The Navy bought a substantial amount in WWII.