26 Mar 2021 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

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Willard Foxton, Made several WW2 documentaries
Answered October 18 · Upvoted by Anthony Ricci, 12 years USMC, 10 Navy, 3 Army: 1st Gulf War, OIF-06/07
It’s certainly false that the bullet couldn’t penetrate frozen winter coats. Filming with US police departments I was party to a test of the WW2 era M1 carbine against bulletproof vests.

At 100 yards, we found .30 Carbine full metal jacket ammunition would penetrate police bullet proof vests rated up to Level 3A (the highest level of protection without armour plates) with no trouble. Those vests would stop .44 magnum rounds at the same distance. There’s no way a frozen coat offers more protection than that.