A second production of M1905 bayonets occurred 1942–43 to supplement existing stocks of M1905 bayonets.Īs shown in this comparison image, the second production represented a redesign that was easier to manufacture and maintain. forces were still armed with the M1903 rifle of the First World War. Although the M1 Garand rifle had been adopted in 1936, the majority of U.S. entered the Second World War, no American bayonets had been produced since 1922. The M1905 bayonet was also used with the M1903 rifle. The Johnson Model 1941 rifle’s 8-lugged rotating bolt design was adapted by designer Eugene Stoner for his revolutionary Armalite AR-10 assault rifle and is still used today in the M16 assault rifle. The designs were considered especially innovative. During his time at Springfield Armory, he developed his own designs for the Model 1941 self-loading rifle and Model 1941 light machine gun. Serial numbering of the muzzle ring is believed to have been done by the Netherlands, indicating that this example likely saw service in the Far East with Dutch Naval Forces or the Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger or KNIL (Royal Netherlands East Indies Army).Ī graduate of Harvard Law School, Johnson was assigned as an observer of the Army trials of the Garand and Peterson rifles. The CIA armed some of the Cuban-Exile guerilla forces with Johnson rifles during the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion. The Model 1941 rifle and bayonet were used in small numbers by U.S.
The scabbard is leather with a brass thorn to secure the hilt strap.Ī total of approximately 30,000 Johnson Model 1941 rifles are believed to have been produced. The rifle's recoil-operated action required a lightweight bayonet, which accounts for the bayonet's skeletal appearance.Įssentially, a socket bayonet without a socket, this bayonet mounts to the rifle by means of an ingenious flat spring. Johnson as an alternative to the M1 Garand. The Model 1941 was an innovative rifle design developed by U.S.M.C. 30-06 Johnson Model 1941 self-loading rifle.
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