Ord/Orders for Win

[Clancy]

Gentlemen,
Here are two files that you might find of interest.
Can you name the three (3) men in the photo.
Ordnance is still moving even in the Summer of 1941.

Guys TRY to put in some info/question and we can learn more of the M1's History Without input from you guys no one learns

Thanks again
Clancy
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[Dimitri]

John Garand (Left),

Major General Charles M. Wesson (Center)
Was the Army Chief of Ordanance from 1938 to 1942.

Brigadier General Gilbert H. Stewart (right).
Was the Commanding officer at Springfield Armoury. And starting from 1915 you can see "his" inspection mark on revolvers and rifles with a "GHS" he started marking pistols at first, and his rank when starting that job was a Col.

Dimitri

 

[Ruger30-06]

John Garand (Left),

Major General Charles M. Wesson (Center)
Was the Army Chief of Ordanance from 1938 to 1942.

Brigadier General Gilbert H. Stewart (right).
Was the Commanding officer at Springfield Armoury. And starting from 1915 you can see "his" inspection mark on revolvers and rifles with a "GHS" he started marking pistols at first, and his rank when starting that job was a Col.

Dimitri

I think Stewart looks a bit old for a Brigadier Gen. I think him and Wesson need to swap ranks, but thats my opinion

 

[Dimitri]

You'd think so but as you can see by the stars on their sholders that is not the case.

Dimitri

 

[x westie]

One has to give the government under Franklin Rooseveldt credit for trying to prepare for a conflict they knew eventually would drag the U.S. into....inspite of many people in the U.S...including well known people like Joseph Kennedy..{father of JFK}..and Charles Lindberg.. who thought that by putting their head in the sand Adolf Hitler and Imperial Japan would go away....just like the flu....not likely.....i think it was about this time that Winchester was working on designing the M1 carbine.....another important weapon...actually the most abundant U.S. small arm of WW2

 

[Dimitri]

War in todays world (actually since before WW1) is not as simple as it used to be, with naibuors fighting naibours, everyone in the US that thought the War wouldn't come "home" was foolish when you could launch planes to get anywhere in the world and a Navy that could navigate the globe without much difficultly by that time with a large fleet.

Dimitri