Original U.S. WWI Wounded Officer’s Uniform Jacket & Breeches with Scarce Railway Artillery Reserve Patch Made from French Horizon Blue Uniform British Swagger Stick The M5A1 design improvement was

The M5A1 design improvement was implemented very quickly: mid-contract at J & D Tool Co

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a storied production plant that would later produce the MG 08 and MG 08/15 Maxim Machine guns during the First World War

one of the major manufacturers of this type of bayonet

The "broken sun cross" swass on the pommel and cross guard also retain virtually all of their original gilding

Original U.S. WWI Wounded Officer’s Uniform Jacket & Breeches with Scarce Railway Artillery Reserve Patch Made from French Horizon Blue Uniform British Swagger Stick The M5A1 design improvement wasOriginal Set. One of a Kind. This is one of the scarcest patches we have ever had on a WWI uniform, the RAR patch for the Railway Artillery Reserve, a very interesting unit which utilized the only American made artillery used in the war. Under this unit were six U. S. Naval Railway Batteries, the only Naval personnel to see combat in the major offensives on the Western Front. In November 1917, Rear Adm. Ralph Earle, the head of the Navys Bureau of