Original U.S. WWI & WWII M1905 Springfield 16" Rifle Bayonet marked S.A. with M3 Scabbard - dated 1906 Antique Remingtons and 25 of whom received

and 25 of whom received the nation's highest honor

The copies are of the Progress Report on the Examination of Enemy Materiel: A Chemical and Metallurgical Examination of a Section of Japanese Body Armor

It is decorated with a well detailed silvered aluminum eagle insignia on the peak and and an open silvered aluminum oak leaf and acorn wreath surrounding a metal tri-color cockade on the band

but powder corrosion has made the marking unclear

Bleckmann & Poldihutte Klando Boemia Unknown x Stirnpanzer

Original U.S. WWI & WWII M1905 Springfield 16" Rifle Bayonet marked S.A. with M3 Scabbard - dated 1906 Antique Remingtons and 25 of whom receivedOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very good condition U. S. M1905 bayonet dated 1906, originally made during the Pre WWI period for the M1903 Springfield Rifle, which was then reissued in WWII for the M1 Garand Rifle. It is fitted with a WWII Issue M3 scabbard. The Garand was designed to take the same blade bayonet as the M1903 Springfield rifle, so at the beginning of the war they were issued with bayonets originally made for those rifles.