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Ian McCollum on Forgotten Weapons states that the AR rotating bolt and cammed bolt carrier were copied by Stoner and Sullivan. Ian speculated that Stoner may have seen a M1941 on Guadalcanal in the hands of Para Marines or Raiders during the fighting there.

There is a description of this adaptation in Charles B. MacDonald’s classic “Company Commander.” He referred to these as “foxhole mortars.”

“The [Dieppe] raid on the French coast showed that an amphibious assault against Hitler’s Atlantic Wall was not the same as previous landing operations in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.” The Dieppe Raid, Operation JUBILEE, in August 1942 preceded the landings in North Africa (November ‘42)...