Bayonet

  • suzuki
    Woodbury, Mn
    Posts: 18625
    August 20, 2020 at 10:13 am #1966724

    I’ve been around this bayonet my whole life. As kids we would occasionally play with it since it was kept in a common basement closet. Somehow I ended up with it many years ago and its been in my toolbox ever since. All I know is my Dad got it while serving in the Navy. He served in WWII and Korea. He’s gone now so I cannot confirm when he got it. I think its a common bayonet from those years? I wonder what it fits? An M1 Garand?
    Anyone have any insight?

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    Ralph Wiggum
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 11764
    August 20, 2020 at 10:21 am #1966729

    That’s cool!

    My mother-in-law has a Vietnamese (probably Chinese) pistol that my father-in-law brought home from Vietnam. I’d love to know the story behind that (but he passed away long ago).

    Tom Sawvell
    Inactive
    Posts: 9559
    August 20, 2020 at 11:29 am #1966748

    Did you also notice the “sold for $145.00 dollars on that link’s page? Bayonets can be really pricey. I was given a Japanese Sword as a teenager from WWII. Maybe forty-five years later I had the sword appraised at almost $1000.00. Certain bayonets can bring almost as much.

    onestout
    Hudson, WI
    Posts: 2698
    August 20, 2020 at 1:56 pm #1966799

    The 3 sided bayonets which I think are from WWI bring some big dollars, they are also outlawed by the Geneva Convention because the wound can’t be stitched up. Maybe someone has more better info than I on this, I remember a seeing a show on it once.

    404 ERROR
    MN
    Posts: 3918
    August 20, 2020 at 2:08 pm #1966802

    Very cool! I got an Arisaka bayonet from my grandpa that he got in the war. There was a rust spot on it and he always said it was a blood stain from the (insert derogatory Japanese term here).

    Steve Root
    South St. Paul, MN
    Posts: 5623
    August 20, 2020 at 2:27 pm #1966808

    I have an M1 Garand Bayonet too. It’s a little beat up but still scary looking. I also have a German Officer’s ceremonial dagger. It’s in good shape, but seems flimsy and probably wouldn’t work well gutting out a Deer.

    SR

    tomr
    cottage grove, mn
    Posts: 1275
    August 20, 2020 at 4:08 pm #1966848

    My dad was in the pacific war and brought home a japanese rifle and bayonet. The rifle was really heavy and thought I would hate to haul that around all day. The bayonet my dad used to dig dandelions. Seems funny now thinking back on it. Don’t know what happened to it and have to ask my brother if he has it.

    gimruis
    Plymouth, MN
    Posts: 17426
    August 20, 2020 at 6:55 pm #1966887

    My grandfather was in WW2 and helped liberate Buchenwald concentration camp. He had some German items at his house that I often wondered about: a sword, compass, knife, and watch. I knew they were German because there were swastikas on them. One day I worked up the balls to ask him about that stuff and he told me he took it from a dead German soldier that he had killed in battle. He also said that while his platoon was making their way through rural Poland and Germany, they would stop at farms and take livestock from civilians because they were so hungry. Chickens mostly, but a couple hogs too.

    He wasn’t real proud of what he had done other than helping free some Jews from that concentration camp and he never spoke of it again before he died in 2007.

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