Question about a Cartouche on my Garand

[bchois226]

I have a Springfield M1 Garand that was made in November 1944. On the left hand side of the stock there is a "D" engraved on it. The only other marks on the stock are a copy of the receiver serial number on the underside of the stock. The Garand came from CMP, but I am not the person who received it so I don't know where the surplus came from. I do belive that there were sniper models that were M1-d's, but I don't believe that is the case with my Garand. If I understand it correctly, M1-d's have two holes drilled on the underside of the stock. My Garand has no such holes.

Does anyone know what the "D" stands for? Thank you.

[kf4zra]

the M1D sniper stocks looked like regular GI stocks cept they had an additional stamping which remained hidden under the cheek rest.

my M1D has a replacement stock so i cant answer your questions on the original stock.

good luck with your search, and if you find out that it is a M1D stock, and you would like a beautiful boyd's stock for yours lemme know.

John

[Butch]

I got a Remington made Model 1903 from the CMP that came back to us from Greece and it has the last four digits of the rifles serial number stamped on the stock also, so I would suspect that your M1 probably came back from Greece also.

I have no idea what the D may indicate.


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[thisaway]

The `D' is more than likely a unit marking for whatever military unit used the rifle. It doesn't indicate the stock was on an M1D.