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Springfield Armory National Historic Site 2nd Continental Dragoons, Armory Day, 2009. (c) James Langone
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Springfield Armory National Historic Site
Bronze Bust of John C. Garand
Bronze memorial bust of John C. Garand

Springfield Armory NHS, US NPS

John C. Garand

1888-1974

A quiet genius who gave

To his adopted country

“The Greatest Battle Implement ever Devised”

The M1 Rifle

 

Donated by the Membership

Of the Garand Collectors Association

June 6, 1994

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Anchisaurus Polyzelus

Did You Know?
Some of the first fossilized dinosaur bones discovered in North America were inadvertently unearthed during construction at Springfield Armory in the mid-1850s.
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