I use 4198 for exactly the same, except for the M1 Carbine, but also for Mannlicher and Mosin Nagant, I believe, and possibly others. . I got an M1 Carbine from CMP and also a M1. I sat and looked at them awhile, one at a time, then sold them. They just didn't sing to me. Dad was a medic in the ETO in WWII... but medics were unarmed. The only gun he ever had his hands on was one night only, somewhere in Germany, he got put on guard duty, with a German Commission Rifle. In dad's case, he wasn't a medic because of aptitude or experience... but because he was about blind as a bat. Anyone he might have shot at with that Commission Rifle would probably have been pretty safe. Other folks... hard to say. Dad was drafted under a classification for "Limited Duty", meaning that he wasn't supposed to be sent outside of CONUS. When he heard the unit had orders for Europe, he asked the first shirt about his limited duty classification. The answer was... "Don't worry. We took care of that." It was, after all, a medical unit. Apparently what one doctor did, another doctor could undo. The irony is that first sergeant was a professional NCO who had been busted many times. Apparently HE didn't want to go... so he got himself busted and dad said the last time he saw the guy he was digging "six bys"... a hole 6' x 6' x 6'. You dig the hole, make it nice and tidy and square, then fill that one in and dig another one. Punitive duty... Dad ended up at the end of the war at Leipzig on the Elbe, deep in what became East Germany... where we met the Roosians. He dealt with Russians exchanging prisoners, sent DPs back to their home countries if they had one, etc. Then he was ordered to Japan, but Japan surrendered while he was waiting to board ship at Marseilles, so he just got shipped home.