Original U.S. WWII Combat Medic 5th Infantry Division Grouping MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets each group was met at

each group was met at the station and trucked to the parade ground where a 34-foot-tall parachute "mock tower" had been erected

between the periphery of the canopy and the lift webs

Painted truncheons are rare

as it had not been known that the 1st Brigade (25th Maine and 27th Maine) were only nine-month units and their terms were about to expire

Blade length is approximately 29” and overall length 38

Original U.S. WWII Combat Medic 5th Infantry Division Grouping MG 42 Display Guns & Part Sets each group was met atOriginal Items: One one of a kind set. On 16 October 1939 the 5th Division was reactivated as part of the United States mobilization in response to the outbreak of World War II in Europe in September 1939, being formed at Fort McClellan, Alabama, under the command of Brigadier General Campbell Hodges. The following spring, in 1940, the division was sent to Fort Benning, Georgia, and then temporarily to Louisiana for training exercises, before being