Original U.S. WWII USMC Bolo Knife with BOYT 1943 Scabbard Mortars After the Japanese attack on

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

and is marked GES

Among the airfields attacked were St

Some of these are unidentified

Colonel Adrian had been struck with the idea for a protective steel helmet after a conversation with a wounded French soldier who had survived an almost certain fatal shrapnel wound by placing a cooking pot lid under his wool cap

Original U.S. WWII USMC Bolo Knife with BOYT 1943 Scabbard Mortars After the Japanese attack onOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice USMC Medical Corpsman knife attributed to Chatillon with USMC marked and dated leather scabbard. The type used by the Marine Corps in the South Pacific, and like all "Bolo" type knives, were intended as utility tools for clearing brush and light construction. With this knife wood and bamboo could be fashioned into stakes, splints, etc. Though not originally intended as a fighting knife, the close