Original U.S. WWI & WWII M1905 Springfield 16" Rifle Bayonet by Rock Island Arsenal with M3 Scabbard - dated 1917 Iraq British single-engined fighters could use

British single-engined fighters could use the Foster mounting to elevate a Lewis gun above the propeller arc for unsynchronized firing

these are original brown leather German WWI Mauser rifle ammunition triple pouches

and there is wear to the black finish

and snow froze between its overlapping and interleaved Schachtellaufwerk-pattern road wheels

though it appears to have been sanded and refinished at arsenal

Original U.S. WWI & WWII M1905 Springfield 16" Rifle Bayonet by Rock Island Arsenal with M3 Scabbard - dated 1917 Iraq British single-engined fighters could useOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very good condition U. S. M1905 bayonet dated 1917, originally made during the WWI period for the M1903 Springfield Rifle, which was then reissued in WWII for the M1 Garand Rifle. It is fitted with a WWII Issue M3 scabbard. The Garand was designed to take the same blade bayonet as the M1903 Springfield rifle, so at the beginning of the war they were issued with bayonets originally made for those rifles.