Original German WWII 98k 44-dated Bayonet by Carl Eickhorn with Scabbard and Frog - Matching Serial 8285 German Field Equipment 320th Bombardment Squadron

320th Bombardment Squadron

More can be read about the 89th Field Artillery Battalion in the book United States Army In WWII - The Pacific - Guadalcanal: The First Offensive by Samuel Milner

as well as search and rescue

This is a particularly fine example is one of the very few we found included in the

airfields and communications centers in Germany

Original German WWII 98k 44-dated Bayonet by Carl Eickhorn with Scabbard and Frog - Matching Serial 8285 German Field Equipment 320th Bombardment SquadronOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1935 the German military introduced the K98k bolt action rifle or Karabiner 98 Kurz, as a replacement for the older GEW98 or Gewehr 98. A new, shorter bayonet was designed to go along with the shortened rifle. The K98 bayonet was officially named Seitengewehr 84 98 or SG 84 98. The bayonet was designed as a close combat sidearm that could be placed on the tip of a K98. The total length of the K98 bayonet was 15. 2