7 Mar 20 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

1937? Those rifles would be gas traps and they would be the enemy.

it doesn't make sense to me but that is the caption

perhaps it was 1957



Osterreich Bundesheer troops on exercise in 1956. Two have M1 Garands, the third a M1 carbine

This legendary WWII rifle was the mainstay of the early Austrian army. A total of 25,811 Garands were transferred in 1955; 25,000 from the departing occupation troops or the Stockpile A system, and the other 811 via an additional buy. Austria designated the Garand as GM1.