Original U.S. WWII Blade Marked Second Pattern M3 Fighting Knife by Camillus with M8 Scabbard by B.M. Co. Japanese Military Maps It was a forbidding-looking area

It was a forbidding-looking area

the helmet remains a substantially complete example with strong surviving exterior and interior markings

The cap has a rather slanted shape from poor storage

the year the award was instituted

Original U.S. WWII Blade Marked Second Pattern M3 Fighting Knife by Camillus with M8 Scabbard by B.M. Co. Japanese Military Maps It was a forbidding-looking areaOriginal Item: Only One Available. A fine U. S. WWII M3 fighting knife manufactured by the Camillus Cutlery Company and accompanied by an early pattern U. S. M8 scabbard produced by B. M. Co. The spear point blade is stamped on the obverse ricasso: U. S. M3 CAMILLUS This undated marking arrangement is generally identified as the second pattern, introduced after the earliest 1943 dated examples. The underside of the steel pommel also retains the U. S.