While Velia Costantino couldn t enlist during World War II, she used the blacksmithing skills her father taught her to become the youngest woman in the shop at Brown & Sharpe.
The M1 Garand Has a Great Kill Record: It Beat Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan
The M-1 had a significant advantage over the bolt-action rifles used by the other Allied and enemy armies because of its semiautomatic mechanism.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Although soldiers groused and kidded about the weight of the M-1, Garand’s weapon gave stout service wherever it was carried. Often making the difference between life and death for the men on the front lines, it played a vital tactical role and, ultimately, a decisive role in the Allied victory over the forces of Nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan.