Original U.S. WWII Airborne 507th PIR Operation Market Garden Jump Named Grouping Stocks M1871 Vetterli and M1871/87 Vetterli-Vitali

M1871 Vetterli and M1871/87 Vetterli-Vitali rifles

This resulted in the War Department in Washington helping themselves to British marked P-13 bayonets awaiting shipment to Europe

officers could be selected for civil and political placements

the Mk I was replaced with a strengthened version

from November 1943 to June 1945

Original U.S. WWII Airborne 507th PIR Operation Market Garden Jump Named Grouping Stocks M1871 Vetterli and M1871/87 Vetterli-VitaliOriginal Items: One of a kind grouping. Private George A. McNamara ASN 13 044 446 enlisted in December 1941 and was a Private First Class (Pfc) in the Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and spent nine months as a Light Machine Gunner in combat as a member first of the 82nd Airborne Division then in the 17th Airborne Division. He has a documented parachute jump into Holland as part of Operation Market Garden then