Original U.S. WWII Airborne Schrade M2 No.3 Knife with Plastic "Jigged Bone" Handle U.S. Artwork & Posters and buffington sight

and buffington sight

the Allies had preemptively bombed the French railway system into ruins in the weeks leading up to the D-Day landing

He earned three distinguished Flying Crosses

The area around the cap lock nipple has a lot of powder burn

This is an excellent leather holster with a clear ink stamp date of 1934

Original U.S. WWII Airborne Schrade M2 No.3 Knife with Plastic "Jigged Bone" Handle U.S. Artwork & Posters and buffington sightOriginal Item: Only One Available. These M2 Paratrooper pockets knives with the mid war issue plastic imitation "jigged bone" handles (scales or grip) are relatively hard to find, as they were quickly replaced with the metal scaled version. This very nice example, offered in very good fully functional condition, is marked on the base of the blade ricasso as follows: SCHRADE WALDEN N. Y. U. S. A. These blade markings definitely identify it as a WWII