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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