The Garand gave the average grunt FIREPOWER, something no other rifle had. It dispelled the ridiculous WW I old time belief in the steady rifleman sliding his bolt after aiming carefully across no man's land of the trenches.

A squad armed with Garands and the typical pair of BARs and perhaps a Thompson or 2 became able to move and fire in volumes unheard of with any bolt sloshing rifle.

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