Original U.S. WWII Named 66th ID Ranger and 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment Grouping Category_Blunderbuss - Original Air Medal in

- Original Air Medal in case

The term "rifle-musket" originally referred to muskets with the smooth-bored barrels replaced with rifled barrels

Metal badges are totally genuine and show minor wear

the German Rifle Testing Commission at Spandau decided to develop a new weapon for trench warfare

and measures approximately 19" x 4"

Original U.S. WWII Named 66th ID Ranger and 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment Grouping Category_Blunderbuss - Original Air Medal inOriginal Items: One of a kind set. Sergeant Thomas R. Gilbert Jr. ASN 34771068 enlisted in the Army on March 27th, 1943. On October 23rd, 1943 he graduated the Sixty Sixth Infantry Division Ranger School at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in Arkansas. Following this he went to Parachute School (Class III) at Fort Benning, Georgia in 1944. After completion of Parachute training he was assigned to the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and later the 507th PIR