M1 Garand Bayonet Flaming Bomb OL 1943 Cutdown
version
Nice condition. Lever and latch works. Black grips. Blade is
9.5", overall length is exactly 14". Blade has US OL 1943 and Flaming Bomb logo
on oneside.
Most cut down Bayonet has a 10" blade but this one has an
exactly 9.5".
History of the M1 Garand bayonet from wikipedia
The M1 Bayonet was designed to be used with the .30 caliber U.S.
Rifle M1. The blade is 10 inches (25.4 cm) long, and the handle is 4 inches
(10.1 cm) long.
Before 1943, the M1 Garand and all variants of the U.S. Rifle
Model 1903 were using the M1905 bayonet and later M1942 bayonets.
In 1943, the U.S. Army decided a shorter bayonet would be
better, so as many of the M1905/1942s as possible were recalled, had their
blades cut down to 10 inches, and were reissued. These shortened bayonets, along
with the newly made 10-inch bayonets, are called M1 bayonets. They functioned
well in the European theater, where in the rare bayonet-actions of the time,
they were matched up against the 9 3/4 inch long blade of the German S84/98 III
bayonet fitted on the Karabiner 98k. However, in the Pacific theater, the much
longer Japanese sword bayonets on the already very long Arisaka rifle caused
many American troops to retain the long M1905 bayonet.
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