Original 17th Century Japanese Wakizashi Sword with Handmade Blade by SUKESADA Circa 1650-1680 U.S. Machine Guns Twenty-Nineth Bomb Group (H)

Twenty-Nineth Bomb Group (H)

- Reverse of jacket features a hand painted design with "Long Rangers" in white and red paint above full color B-24 Liberator flying through the clouds

Complete with brass helmet plate of castle with flaming bomb in shield surrounded by oak leaf branches beneath a scroll banner that reads SAPEUR POMPIERS L'HOTELLERE

On 29 April 1946

The sword comes complete with its original black leather brass mounted scabbard

Original 17th Century Japanese Wakizashi Sword with Handmade Blade by SUKESADA Circa 1650-1680 U.S. Machine Guns Twenty-Nineth Bomb Group (H)Original Item: Only One Available. Wakizashi ( "side inserted companion sword") is a general term for a sword between one and two shaku long (30 cm and 60 cm), predominantly made after 1600. Generally it is the short blade that accompanies a katana in the traditional samurai daisho pairing of swords, but may be worn by classes other than the samurai as a single blade, also worn edge up as the katana. This example has most likely been remounted several