Original Japanese WWII Guadalcanal Captured USGI Signed Silk "Meatball" Flag - 132nd Infantry Regiment Stocks After newly assigned recruits completed

After newly assigned recruits completed basic training in their battalions in May 1943

Additionally most of our Short Rifles were made to be fitted with the Nepalese version of the British P-1856 Saber bayonets

At first glance we assumed this pistol to have been shortened having perhaps started life with a 12" barrel but after comparison with other Dragoon Pistols dated in the 1730s and 1740s with 12" barrels it is quite clear that this pistol has always had a 9" barrel with all the ramrod mounts scaled back and the fore end cut appropriately from the time of original manufacture

The Twenty-seventh returned to

Original Japanese WWII Guadalcanal Captured USGI Signed Silk "Meatball" Flag - 132nd Infantry Regiment Stocks After newly assigned recruits completedOriginal Item: One of a kind. The 132nd Infantry Regiment was inducted into federal service on March 5, 1941, at Chicago, Illinois, as part of the 33rd Infantry Division, and participated in divisional maneuvers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee. It was relieved from the 33rd Division on January 14, 1942, and assigned to Task Force 6814, an assemblage of units gathered for immediate transfer to Australia to defend against threatened Japanese invasion. On the