For this Labor Day holiday weekend, we decided to revisit the M1 Carbine family. This is one of my favorite military firearms, and my favorite American rifle of World War II. Yes that does mean I do prefer the M1 Carbine over the M1 Garand, and I do explain why in the video.
We talk about the design and development of the carbine from the late 1930s and into the war. We touch upon its military service from 1942, throughout Korea, and even into Vietnam. We look at the original M1, the paratrooper's M1A1, the select-fire M2, and get a bit into the M3 and its first generation night vision optic.

Between 1941 and 1945, 10 US companies turned out roughly 6,221,220 carbines. This makes it the most massed produced American smallarm of the entire war.

Below is a list of manufacturers and the number of carbines built....
1) Inland Division, General Motors - 2,632,097
2) Winchester - 828,059
3) Underwood-Elliot-Fisher - 545,616
4) Saginaw Steering Gear, General Motors - 517,212
5) National Postal Meter - 413,017
6) Quality Hardware - 359,666
7) IBM - 346,500
8) Standard Products - 247,160
9) Rock-Ola - 228,500
10) Commercial Controls (formarly NPM) - 239

Additionally, Irwin-Pedersen & Auto-Ordnance briefly produced receivers.



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