Original Israeli Issue M-1949 Mk. 1A Mauser 98k Rifle Bayonet with Heavy Muzzle Ring & Scabbard Italian Flags This carbine is marked with

This carbine is marked with serial number 12233 on the top side of the receiver

Lt Col Armstrong and his personnel officers screened the records and chose those that Lt Col Armstrong wanted from over 200 officers and several hundred enlisted men

I was sent by ambulance to a hospital in Paris where the signs were still printed in German and I wore German pajamas

The Austrian invasion was stopped by the arrival of French troops in Piedmont from 25 April onward

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Original Israeli Issue M-1949 Mk. 1A Mauser 98k Rifle Bayonet with Heavy Muzzle Ring & Scabbard Italian Flags This carbine is marked withOriginal Item: Only One Available. After the defeat of Germany in WWII, there was a flood of surplus weapons available on the market, both publicly and through other channels. In 1947 and 1948, Israel clandestinely procured captured Second World War German weapons, including Kar 98k rifles and M1884 98 III bayonets. Not entirely happy with the design of the bayonets, the German bayonets were refit with sturdier crossguards with heavy muzzle rings.