Guys keep in mind that M1 rifle was adopted during the depression when military budgets were a joke. So yea, they demanded that the older bayonet would fit the M1 in a cost saving measure. US Army strength in 1938-39 was less than 400,000 total active, reserve and NG with about 190,000 active duty. Military budgets reflected the US isolationist attitudes. The M1 bayonet to the best of my knowledge was designed for the M1 but the bayonets that fit the O3's would also fit. So really any would be correct and I'm betting that there were lots of the old ones in warehouses. Shortly after WWII broke out there were reports of massive numbers of Saber, Calvary, 1913 (last model for the US Army) found in US Army warehouses. At the time they were found the US Army had disbanded the last horse mounted Cav units during the fighting in the Philippians and the soldiers wound up eating their horses on Bataan. So the Army was use to keeping stuff long past when it could be used.
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Today's Featured Article - Oil Bath Air Filters - by Chris Pratt. Some of us grew up thinking that an air filter was a paper thing that allowed air to pass while trapping dirt particles of a particles of a certain size. What a surprise to open up your first old tractor's air filter case and find a can that appears to be filled with the scrap metal swept from around a machine shop metal lathe. To top that off, you have a cup with oil in it ("why would you want to lubricate your carburetor?"). On closer examination (and some reading in a AC D-14 service manual), I found out that this is a pretty ingenious method of cleaning the air in the tractor's intake tract.
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