[riptide]

Hi.
I just bought a international harvester M1 grand with serial # 4561579
and I would like to know it history if possible. I was with the frist marine div in the chosin resovior with fox company. would love to be able to find one that was ther in 1950.can any help me with this.Thanks

[gunnerdave]

International Harvester made M1's from 1953-1956. According to the serial number info I have, yours was made between 1953 & 1954 (SN range 4,400,000-4,660,000).

HTH,

Dave

[SightNSqueeze]

riptide- It looks like your particular Garand was made about three of four years after your trip to the Chosen Reservoir. It is still the exact same design and chances are that you have many parts from older M1 Garands that got mixed and matched during cleaning and servicing over the years. The M1 Garand continued in manufacture until April 1957 at Springfield Armory with a total U.S. production of around 5.9 million. Four months later, the M-14 service rifle went into full scale production at Springfield Armory. Thank you for your service in Korea and likely elsewhere while in the Marines. I had the good fortune to have served and worked with Marines here and abroad while assigned to the Defense Department.

[Iron_Colonel]

Don't forget to add it to the roll call thread