Original U.S. WWI Excellent Named & Insignia-Inscribed 78th Division Corrected English Type Box Respirator Gas Mask to Wounded Soldier - 312th Infantry Regiment - PFC William J. Ludwig Japanese Uniforms The body is painted gray

The body is painted gray and does not have any stenciling present

This is a very scarce bayonet to find in this configuration

though during the Weimar and Pre-WWII period focused much more on cutlery and razors than anything else

The shell has some heavy oxidation on the interior

and others had no latch at all

Original U.S. WWI Excellent Named & Insignia-Inscribed 78th Division Corrected English Type Box Respirator Gas Mask to Wounded Soldier - 312th Infantry Regiment - PFC William J. Ludwig Japanese Uniforms The body is painted grayOriginal Item. One of a Kind. The 78th Division of the United States Army was constituted on 5 August 1917 and activated on 23 August 1917, over four months after the American entry into World War I, at Camp Dix, New Jersey. It consisted of four infantry regiments: the 309th, 310th, 311th and 312th; and three artillery Regiments: the 307th, 308th and 309th. The division was originally allocated to New York and northern Pennsylvania in the National