http://www.fulton-armory.com/gca.htm

Donny, not only do you have a nice, rare version of the United States Pistol, caliber .45 Model 1911A1, but you have TWO very collectible Winchester-made WWII examples of the U.S. Rifle, Caliber .30 M1 Garand rifle, which look to be complete in your pictures except they are missing their butt stock components. Looks like everything else is there on the one, and the recoil spring and recoil spring strut are off the other one. Unless you have the stocks as well. In eithercase, you need to contact an M1 rifle collector about putting geeting the missing components and putting those two rifles back together so you canrestore them to original condition. Then get them appraised for collector value. Personally, I would be tempted to shoot them!

Acording to GEN George S. Patton Jr., "the M1 rifle is the greatest battle instrument ever devised."

Depending on condition, even without the original stocks, I would guess (and this is just a ROUGH guess), EACH of those rifles is worth at least $500.00 to $800.00 depending on condition. They look pretty good in your pictures, but I'd have to be able to inspect them to know for sure. In any case, I would keep them as family heirlooms, but I would definitely get stocks for them and put them back together.

RE: "hmmmm, interesting. so was my wifes grand father some kind of bad ass or something? i know her dad sure scared me when i first met him lol. "

Well, being in that unit, and having survived all the fights it was in, at least the old boy had to be pretty damn tough!