Original U.S. WWII Army Air Corps Type E-17 Emergency Sustenance Kit Spanish Militaria The iron-hilted M1833 was based
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Original U.S. WWII Army Air Corps Type E 17 Emergency Sustenance Kit Spanish Militaria The iron hilted M1833 was based The iron hilted M1833 was based on a Napoleonic era British sword used by heavy cavalry and reputed to wrap "rubber like around a man's head and was only good for cutting butter" An ornate gilded version of this earlier sword was used by General Philip Sheridan during the Civil War As an offensive weapon for ground based targets