>No, not the tank. The other other M1.

The wargaming/RPG club at the university, back when I was young and thin, included as the back cover of the program book for their annual gaming convention a full list of every piece of 20th Century military hardware that used the designation M1 in some fashion. I remember it being 15-20 items, including the M1 Garand and the M1 Abrams. (As well as the M1 Thompson submachinegun.) Seemed like a confusing sort of nomenclature (at least from the outside), though I suppose that if you had the proper context, it would be less so.

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