The manufacture's name is located on the rear of the receiver just above the serial number. All M1's are stamped in this fashion:
U.S. Rifle
Cal. .30 M1
-- serial number--
manfuacture name
A lot of the M1's that come from the CMP do not alwyas have components made by the original manufacturer of the rifle. Major components have "drawing numbers" and initials that show who made the individual component.
Because the rifles were made to military specs, the different manufacturers like Springfield Armory, Winchester, and H&R built the components to those specs and all the parts will interchange between the brand names. The Danish and Greek returns probably had lots of replacement pieces and the chances are remote that any one rifle has components that match manufacturer much less a year they were made.
My Garand is one of the last Danish Service Grade rifles from the CMP and it has a 1960's-era VAR Barrel. A lot of the Danish rifles got new barrels and the company (VAR) that built these barrels made some excellent barrels and are very accurate.
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