Destroy your M1 Garand

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Gentlemen,
…just before the surrender of all US Armed Forces in the Philippines, an Order came down to DESTROY any/all equipment that might be of help to Japan. This Order was for all small arms. What do you think was the fastest way to destroy the M1 Garands that were in the Philippines ? You time frame is in minutes. You can not just take it apart and throw the parts around, because they can be found and rifles built. Have fun.

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Fashion two rows of cinder blocks, even logs. Lay as many rifles as you can across them, arefully drive over them with a truck keeping the wheel between the blocks ;)
 
A) If one was a coward...Drop them in the Ocean.

B) Break the bayonet off inside one of the Emperors finest.

Good pic BTW.
 
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Old Rodesian trick, pull the bullets and fill with something explosive that will make the whole gun explode and hurt the ####er using it, and change fuses on grenades to explode in 1/2 second
 
Use muzzle to ease bullet out of cartridge and then hammer that sucker down as far into the barrel as you can get it with a cleaning rod.
 
Nice question, but I don't think there were any M1 Garands in the Philippines at the time. I pretty sure those troops were still armed with the M1903. That being said, there is alway as set down list for the distruction of any wpn. That way if you only get so far, all the wpns will at least have the same parts destroyed, and there for, hopfully usless to the enemy....
 
Bonfire?

grenade bunch?

Fill the bbl with sand and shoot them tied with a string?

Get the trigger group out and break the receiver right side.


Question... you're not working for Hillary are you?:runaway:
 
Pile 'em up, pour gasoline on 'em and light a match. Wood goes away and the metal loses all temper so as to be unsafe to salvage for use.
 
Give em to McGuinty and Bryant, Destruction assured.
M1s were used in the Philipipnes and there was a shortage of clips.
 
"...Got a Sherman..." No Ronson's or Garands in the PI in Dec/Jan of 1942/3. Taking off the gas tube and smacking it with a big hammer would disable an M1 though. Come to think of it, just smacking the gas tube with a would be enough. Breaking the op rod would do it too. So would removing and losing the springs. However, throwing the whole rifle into a nice roaring fire would be quickest.
 
Sgt Striker said:
Nice question, but I don't think there were any M1 Garands in the Philippines at the time. I pretty sure those troops were still armed with the M1903. That being said, there is alway as set down list for the distruction of any wpn. That way if you only get so far, all the wpns will at least have the same parts destroyed, and there for, hopfully usless to the enemy....
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The M1 was first used in combat in the Philppines,....somehow General "Dug- Out" Doug Macarthur managed to equip some of his troops with the Garand...how many were issued ..not sure.....the marines that defended Wake Island used the 1903 Springfield....

The M1's next saw combat on the Dieppe Raid..with a small number of US Rangers attached to the British Commandos in August 1942.....interestingly..the U.S Marine Corps still used the 03 Springfield when they landed on Guadacanal at the same time as the raid on Dieppe...Aug 1942.....
 
Sgt Striker said:
Nice question, but I don't think there were any M1 Garands in the Philippines at the time. I pretty sure those troops were still armed with the M1903.
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See Page 91 of Bruce N. Canfield's U.S. Infantry Weapons Of World War II.

"The M1's first significant combat use was in the ill-fated battles in the Phillippines on Corregidor and Bataan, where early versions of the M1 were used with great effectiveness even though our troops were crippled by inadequate ammunition supplies."
 
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