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Chinese presentation dagger for the U.S. Marine Corps
1940s length 14in. Boxed.
1940s
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Chinese presentation dagger for the U.S. Marine Corps
1940s
1940s
Footnotes
Provenance:
The War Museum
In May 1941 Admiral Glassford of YANGPAT and Consul General in Shanghai, Frank B. Lockhart, had concerns for Americans in China and sent a recommendation to Secretary of State Hull for withdrawal of Marines from China. U.S. Ambassador Clarence Gauss wanted the Marines to stay, but on 10 November Washington ordered the Marines out of China. On 27-28 November the 4th Marines departed Shanghai and headed for the Philippines where they would fight the Japanese until their May 1942 surrender, Bataan Death March and imprisonment. Under these circumstances, the survival rate of these knives would have to be considered extremely low.

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