A Persian Take On The M1 Garand

[bdm]

The good old M1 Garand

[bdm]

Sorry the link did not post
http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2016/10/27/garands-of-the-shah-photo-essay/

[Mike in NC]

It has been suggested in the past, the scarcity of IHC Garands was partially due to a large percentage of them being sent to Iran. This article seems to lend some credence to that possibility. Probably won't get these back in the near future.

[Shooter5]

Neat. The authors data conforms to my experience, as well. IH Garands have turned up in both Iraq and Afghanistan. An IH captured early in OEF is on display at the JFKSW museum on Ft Bragg. Alas, I should have taken more pics and recorded more data on all the myriad of small arms encountered over the years; although I do have at least one Garand pic captured in northern Iraq. Kurdish peshmerga call them "em-yek" (literally translated as 'm-1') and used them during their long struggle against the arab Baath regime. They liked the powerful cartridge and many older pesh indicated the source of the rifles was Iran but how they ended up in Iraq was either unknown or unstated specifically. Many older pesh also received training on the Garand in Iran during the 1970s before the Algiers Agreement of 1975 ended those events.
I have an old family friend from Iran who has a few pictures of his M-1 at basic training in the mid 1960s although he has no idea what mfg/serial number it was and would have had no interest anyways. Recently on deployment while transiting a Turkish military base, I observed a rifle marksmanship course with instructional signs set up for both the HK G3 and the reverse for the M-1.

[gunny]

Absolutely fascinating and incredible.
Thanks for sharing.

Gunny