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2008-11-11 trying to identify cavalry sabre: From what you are describing, its not a cavalry sabre. The blades are normally curve due to being used from horseback. The heavy cavalry sabres, used by the guard or cuirassier were straight blades, designed...
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2008-11-10 trying to identify cavalry sabre: Simon, From what I know of Prussian Cavalry Sabres, both light and heavy, that none that I have seen have the "bowie" cut out you describe. Granted, this doesn't say that the blade may have been damaged...
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2008-11-03 Military Tactics: Interesting story. I have never seen anything to support this theory about a combined Allied encirclement of Germany-it just couldn't happen. First, it wasn't just Germany, there was Austria, Hungary and...
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2008-10-29 Mauser bayonet & scabbard: The standard WWII mauser nomenclature was K98, so the bayonet would be K98 as well. They had various models of mausers, beginning in 1871. The K98 which is actually the Karabiner 98, and had various models...
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2008-10-27 Bombs that look like toys: The Soviets used a scaterable cluster munition called a butterfly, small, flat squared-shape munition that killed and wounded a lot of Afghani children during the invasion of Afghanistan. Looked sort of...
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