Original German WWI M1898 n/A GEW 98 Bayonet dated 1904 with Scabbard and Frog - Regiment Marked Japanese Military Maps On 30 August 1945 the

On 30 August 1945 the division was sent to southern Japan as part of the occupation force

C at Camp McDermitt

while the Antiaircraft Batteries remained with the battalion

commonly called the Blackshirts (Italian: camicie nere

BINOCULARS M16

Original German WWI M1898 n/A GEW 98 Bayonet dated 1904 with Scabbard and Frog - Regiment Marked Japanese Military Maps On 30 August 1945 theOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1898 with the new Mauser bolt action infantry rifle the military adopted this long bayonet, the Seitengewehr (Sidearm) M1898. This longer bayonet gave an Infantryman the ability to bring a Cavalryman down from his horse, due to the bayonets long reach. Of course Cavalry was soon becoming a thing of the past and these long bayonets were being surpassed by different and shorter versions. At the start of WWI in 1914