United States. A U.S Navy Vietnam Commemorative Bayonet of Honour, in Case Province of China 35mm(w) x 57

35mm(w) x 57

This Family Group comes with very extensive research papers and copies of Service Records (over 200 pages)

In a storied wartime career documented in the accompanying Soldbuch

but they were the one eventually called Dambusters

Each side features a central gilded sunwheel-style mobile swastika

United States. A U.S Navy Vietnam Commemorative Bayonet of Honour, in Case Province of China 35mm(w) x 57A presentation M7 bayonet, created to the G. I specifications of an imperial knife used during the Vietnam War. The unsharpened blade (though with sharp tip) features etched snakes and a dragon design and engraved UNITED STATES NAVY VIETNAM, with the opposite ricasso engraved 0060. The plated crossguard is marked IMPERIAL and US M7. The handle in black bakelite with an enamelled disc in the center featuring the United States Navy Crest, the pommel