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Iwo Jima. A captured Japanese sword
Captured February-March, 1945

22 February 2013, 13:00 EST
New York

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Iwo Jima. A captured Japanese sword
Captured February-March, 1945

A Japanese officer's standard military sword, metal grip, fashioned to look like cloth, the scabbard painted 'Cpl Max S. Beirs the "Bear"', and lettered 'Guam Saipan Iwo Jima' with the letter '4'.
length 38in.

Footnotes

Exhibited:
The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, New York, 1995-2007

Provenance:
The War Museum

A captured Japanese sword at the Battle of Iwo Jima by a Corporal Beirs of the 4th Marine Division.

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