The FG42 underwent extensive tests and progressed through several design stages before a final model was adopted by the German High Command. It was late 1944 before the rifle was finally introduced in combat in significant numbers. It is fitted for a bayonet, compensator, telescopic sight, and r...
The large sweeping blade measures 33 1/2-inches and has a false edge and stopped fuller, which terminates about 6-inches from the tip. No scabbard present. Note: This type of sword was used by the American Light Horse just after the Revolutionary War and during the War of 1812. 39-...
If, at a time when it is being mauled simultaneously by the armies of two mighty neighbours, a country learns of the massacre of nearly 10,000 of its officers, prisoners-of-war, who committed no crime other than to fight in its defence, and when that country tries to find out how thi...