[NorthMountain]

Oh, I get what you're saying ... I'm just being a Patriotic American ... We had the Garand. You (furriners, not you personally) didn't. So there. Bleh!

You're right, of course. It would have to be '03 Springfields.

[NFHale]

Yeah man... The Garand was a SERIOUS game changer.

I mean, the Germans had the G43 Gewehr, which was a semi-auto, magazine fed 7.92 rifle, but the Japs, Italians, British, were still using bolt actions, and the majority of the Wermacht Landsers were still using the Kar98K (which is still an amazing rifle).

Even the Russians fielded the SVT-38 and-40 Tokarev rifles (and later on, at the VERY end of the war, the SKS carbines were starting to be issued). The Swedes had the AG42 Ljungman.

There were semi-autos out there, but for the most part, we were the only force that went wide-issue with one.

Now... all of the belligerents had SMGs... so THAT’s an option too... heheh.... I’ll take a Thompson M1928A1, if you please...