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Post by soldatsoucy1 on Dec 11, 2009 18:58:26 GMT -5
Does anyone have any opinion or knowledge of whether the leather and or fiberglass M8A1 sheath was used in Indochine...in other words, which was more common, the earlier leather version or the later fiberglass....or is there a possibility that both were used commonly.
just curious.
John
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Post by 6ebcp on Dec 12, 2009 5:09:51 GMT -5
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Post by marsouin on Dec 17, 2009 10:37:21 GMT -5
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Post by cookie on Dec 19, 2009 10:15:59 GMT -5
Yes , definitely the M8 over the leather scabbard. The leather ones went out of service with US forces in WWII. Local field made leather ones would have been used as well.
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Post by soldatsoucy1 on Dec 19, 2009 15:25:35 GMT -5
Gentlemen!!!
Many thanks again for confirming a small aspect of our continued improvements on 3e BCCP equipment and uniform ...uniformity....
your continued and past help is as always...greatly appreciated.
Doc.
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Post by cookie on Dec 20, 2009 7:33:41 GMT -5
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Post by marsouin on Dec 20, 2009 9:44:13 GMT -5
I think I know where this pic comes from....
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Post by cookie on Dec 20, 2009 11:15:47 GMT -5
I believe it is 'troupes aeroportees en indochine 1945-55'.
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Post by marsouin on Dec 20, 2009 13:06:12 GMT -5
Indeed!!!!!
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Post by catone67 on Jan 8, 2010 18:09:49 GMT -5
the last fighting knife on the right of pic are bizarre! The leather sling and knife came from a US P17 or Brit P14 bayonet, but scabbard look like to a german Kar 98 (or his yugoslavian copy) bayonet scabbard.  Probably a "mix" made by a para who think that Kar 98 bayonet scabbard are more classy than a P17 or P 14 modified leather scabbard.... Thierry |
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Post by cookie on Jan 9, 2010 12:43:39 GMT -5
Yeah, a lot of books on the subject show modified K98 bayonets and other bayonets, often shortened and with curved tips. Plenty of photos of BEP's with K98 bayonets in leather scabbards on their webbing, as late as 1954. Field expediency perhaps?
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Post by catone67 on Jan 9, 2010 16:21:15 GMT -5
Yes, that's correct! and That's a distinctive mark of légionnaire paras. K98 aren't the most current modified bayonet model. P14 or P17 modified bayonets are most representative of field modifications. Because the French army have a important stock of this bayonet model, since ww2 when new free french army buy old rifles to US government.
A lot of this P14- 17 Légion fighting knife are still on duty during Algeria war, and, later, during Operation Bonite in Kolwesi (1978).
Thierry
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