Another treasure I just re-found in my pile o'stuff.  Seems to me someone told me years ago it was an Arlington Cemetary Old Guard buckle. Looks a little small for that to my eye, but hoping one you old salts have seen one before.  Any info appreciated; thanks, Allen

Let's all step back and take a breath-  It's to easy to look back at history with the 20/20 vision of present day hindsight.   This is an interesting topic on an interesting weapon. Let's keep it on track.

Recommend you request an Individual Deceased Personnel File (IDPF).   From the 416th Bomb Group Web site: https://www.416th.com/Memorials/416th_IDPFs.html   For WWII U.S. Army Soldiers whose surnames begin with letters M thru Z: E-Mail: [email protected] U.S. Postal Mail: Department of the Army US Army Human Resources Command ATTN: AHRC-FOIA 1600 Spearhead Division Avenue, Department 107 Fort Knox KY 40122-5743 WWII U.S. Army IDPFs for surnames M-Z from Ft. Knox HAVE BEEN digitized, thus the processing/response time is much faster.   Good luck

Welcome! Wow!  Post Civil War-Pre WWI era is pretty lightly represented here so your collection should help fill the gap. I look forward to seeing and learning about it. Please post lots of pictures and explanations of what you are showing.  mikie

Maybe a fancy patch.   Dominique

"Not sure how a question about identifying a 1967 bayonet model has become the opportunity to start a political argument, especially about an event 58 years ago."   Oh I dont know.... could have been this picture from 58 years ago... Its soaked in politics. Dripping with it. And I for one did not know I was arguing.....?

Huh, never thought about that!

Any info please?

Might be a dumb question, but are we sure this is a child's sword, and not one for ceremonial use? My wife's uniform sword is 29 inches in length, and there's a smaller one (28 inches) available too. 

Actually, I've had this one for a couple of weeks, meant to post and got sidetracked; unitil, i.e., I saw the wonderful posting by Walksaheap.  I thought it was a big deal (for me 😆) Until I saw his wonderful collection!