THANK YOU ALL,for posting your 'dad' storys.
My dad was a 'cook' in the fields of Germany,carried an M1Carbine and a bayonet.
When we sat down after I turned 21 ,over a bottle of bourbon.
He finally told me THE storys that I had asked about when I was a child [ "dad,did you kill any Germans" ] .
He was in a transport when a taller fellow soldier was standing next to him,he was beheaded by wire strung across the road = they found the teens that did it --- teens did not see the end of the war.
He was in a jeep [ the driver ] with another soldier when the escaped German POW's shot the man next to him,that man fell across my dads Carbine.
So he used what he has,his jeep to ram & run the POW's down,then finished the job with his bayonet.
NOW = I understood why he would not drive ,or carry a blade [ tried to give him a few,no go ].
It was a VERY sobering conversation,and I went to bed sober !.
My choice would be the Garand [ yes,of course I own both the Garand & Carbine ].