Garand T26

Au cas ou ça interesse quelqu'un

On ne vois pas beaucoup, Foulton Armory Garand "Tanker"
Et le prix est très raisonable je pense

http://paaf2.frenchboard.com/t1751-vends-garand-t26

NB Je ne connais ni l'arme ni le vendeur

nobby a écrit:Au cas ou ça interesse quelqu'un

On ne vois pas beaucoup, Foulton Armory Garand "Tanker"
Et le prix est très raisonable je pense

http://paaf2.frenchboard.com/t1751-vends-garand-t26

NB Je ne connais ni l'arme ni le vendeur

moi ...si
c'est un pote a philou

Vu le prix sur leur site: http://www.fulton-armory.com/M1-Garand-Rifles.aspx effectivement le prix est raisonnable

Si je ne me trompe pas ce sont ceux qui étaient destinés aux troupes parachutistes car plus courts. J'en ai eu un mais je l'ai revendu, je ne "sentais" pas l'arme, simplement pas à l'aise sans comprendre pourquoi. Maintenant je l'avais acheté car je le trouvais très beau et différent des autres.

carbone14 a écrit:Si je ne me trompe pas ce sont ceux qui étaient destinés aux troupes parachutistes car plus courts. J'en ai eu un mais je l'ai revendu, je ne "sentais" pas l'arme, simplement pas à l'aise sans comprendre pourquoi. Maintenant je l'avais acheté car je le trouvais très beau et différent des autres.

on les appelait aussi "tanker" , donc plutôt pour troupe embarqué sure Half-track ? ???????????

perso je préfère quand même le normal

dédé a écrit:on les appelait aussi "tanker" , donc plutôt pour troupe embarqué sure Half-track ?

Disons plus generiquement dans les blindés

ithaca a écrit:

dédé a écrit:on les appelait aussi "tanker" , donc plutôt pour troupe embarqué sure Half-track ?

Disons plus generiquement dans les blindés

je me voi mal dans un sherman avec sa

What's a "Tanker" Garand?
By Walter J. Kuleck, Ph.D.

The "Tanker Garand" is a "misnomer." During WWII two separate prototypes were developed for paratroop use. The first was the M1E5. The M1E5 had a short barrel and a folding metal stock. It was developed and tested in the Summer of 1944, but then abandoned because of the loud report and large muzzle flash from the short barrel.

In the fall of 1944 the Pacific Warfare Board ordered a test quantity of 150 M1 Rifles to be shortened and tested for jungle and paratroop use. These conversions were rather crudely done in the Pacific Theatre of Operations, either in Australia or the Phillippines. A request was made that Springfield Armory manufacture these shortened M1s, and two were sent by air to the USA for testing.

When the Springfield Armory staff saw the improvised short Garands, they recognized that they were the same as the M1E5 but with a normal wood stock. Thereupon they assembled their own version, designated T26. After testing the same conclusions were drawn as before; the barrel was just too short to be practical. Thus only one T26 was ever made in the USA.

Of the two test rifles sent from the Pacific, one is in the Springfield Armory Museum, and one is reportedly at the West Point Museum. The lone T26 was reported destroyed in testing at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland.

In the 1950's several entrepreneurs, including Robert E. Penney, Jr., acquired a great deal of Garand scrap including cut-in-half receivers and parts sets. They built perhaps ten or twenty thousand rifles by welding receiver halves together. (See the Fulton Armory FAQ entry on the subject of welded receivers by clicking here). This was crude, but it was the only way at that time to get a Garand outside of the Directorate of Civilian Marksmanship (DCM, now the Civilian Marksmanship Program, CMP). Robert Penney noted the short Garand at the Springfield Armory museum during a visit there and decided to meld his interest in tanks with his business interests, Alpine and National Ordnance, prime "remanufacturers" of Garands from Garand scrap. Penney decided that a short T26-type Garand would fit nicely in a tank turret, and coined the term "Tanker Garand." However, the short Garands that were tested by the Army during WWII were not intended for use by tank crews! Nevertheless, Penney's name for the T26-type rifle stubbornly stuck; few gun people recognize "T26" but nearly everyone has heard of the "Tanker Garand."
Even now when M1s have been much more available, the popularity of a short Garand remains strong. Thus many have been made on good, original receivers. I have such a T26 replica (as I prefer to call it):

J'ai pris la liberté d'inclure un paragraphe en anglais.
Le texte indique que le T26 est essentiellement un "marketing gimmick". Ces armes n'ont jamais étés en service officiel, dans les tanks ou avec les parachutistes.
La version courte après quelques tests s'est avérée pas satisfaisante. 1 prototype construit, et éventuellement détruit.
Les T26 en circulation furent créés après guerre avec des pièces de surplus par un dénommé Robert E. Penney, Jr. Cette même personne créa également le terme Garand Tanker
Best regards
RRO

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