Original Japanese WWII High-quality Navy Officer Kyu-Gunto Sword with Nickel Plated Blade German Navy - Kreigsmarine Their Blue and White insignia

Their Blue and White insignia also earned them the nickname The Blue and White Devils

where they had dug many rifle pits from which they now kept up a constant fire

and is in really nice “tight” collector's condition

was the formation of moisture on the optical elements within the  finished instrument

Original Japanese WWII High-quality Navy Officer Kyu-Gunto Sword with Nickel Plated Blade German Navy - Kreigsmarine Their Blue and White insigniaOriginal Item: Only One Available. The first standard sword of the Japanese military was known as the kyu gunto (, old military sword). Murata Tsuneyoshi (1838 1921), a Japanese general who previously made guns, started making what was probably the first mass produced substitute for traditionally made samurai swords. These swords are referred to as "Murata to" and they were used in both the Sino Japanese war (1894 1895) and the Russo Japanese war