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    Actually Canadaicon did use the Garandicon,but in pre-IHC times. The 6th Cdn Inf Div was formed in 1945 to be a part of the Invasion of Japan in co-operation with US forces. For the sake of interoperability and logistics,the force structure was organized in conformity with the US Army(regiments instead of brigades,etc) and the Div was equipped and trained with US infantry small arms.

    I suspect that some/all of these weapons and associated spares and equipment may have wound up in Cdn supply depots as they were a special issue for the Japaneseicon operation which never came off. A friend has attested to the fact that Garand parts were held in Cdn Army inventory and that some parts of obvious Cdn origin were re-imported from Denmarkicon in the late 1990s.My personal copy of the 1947 TM came out of the technical reference library in 25 Central Ordnance Depot,Montreal.

    When I joined the Cdn Army in 1964 most of our officers and NCOs were WW2 and/or Korean vets and many had discussed the fact that Garands and carbines were often unofficially aquired and used by Cdn troops in Korea because of their greater firepower in relation to the Lee Enfields and STENs.Other than this,Garands were used by RCAF personnel for NATO airbase defence in Europe in the 1950s.

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