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M-1

American  
[em-wuhn] / ˈɛmˈwʌn /

noun

  • M-1's
    plural
  1. a semiautomatic, gas-operated, .30 caliber, clip-fed rifle, with a weight of 8.56 pounds (3.88 kilograms): the standard U.S. Army rifle in World War II and in the Korean War.


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Technology is a part of war’s landscape; it separates the 21st century from the eras of the Brown Bess musket, the bronze cannon and the M-1 Garand rifle.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

More than 2,000 were sent to Saudi Arabia for the Gulf War, where they destroyed more Iraqi tanks than the M-1 Abrams.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 5, 2023

Along with the M-1 rifle he carried across Europe, he kept a small 35-millimeter Argus C3 camera that he had bought as a teenager.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

We were issued M-1 rifles and learned to assemble and disassemble and clean them.

From Salon ● Mar. 27, 2021

Three enlisted men carrying M-1 rifles, and a stern, pale captain, his bars pointing sideways and glittering on his shoulders, appeared from the sides of the road.

From Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett

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