Original U.S. WWII US Navy Unissued Unmarked Milsco M-1941 Klewang Boarding Cutlass With Scabbard German Mauser 98k K98 After recruit training

After recruit training

in this case to add a new edged design

the Jolly Rodgers

His former commanding officer

Original U.S. WWII US Navy Unissued Unmarked Milsco M-1941 Klewang Boarding Cutlass With Scabbard German Mauser 98k K98 After recruit trainingOriginal Item: Only One Available. Towards the end of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th Century, the US Navy was about to retire its 50 year old mainstay naval cutlass, the M1860, first developed and used for the Civil War. Just as it did for all of its naval cutlasses, the US Navy went out to seek the best current design of cutlass the world had to offer at that time and chose to pattern its new model M1917 after the Dutch Netherlands