Original German WWII Era Prototype Bright Steel Seitengewehr 84/98 Bayonet for 98K Rifles with Scabbard U.S. Grenades with the iconic crush shape

with the iconic crush shape

which could be rotated to engage the inside surface of the bore behind the chamber

and the 509th was disbanded with the survivors and returning wounded being sent to the 82nd or 13th Airborne Divisions as replacements

Its Sudanese owner probably slaughtered by the British Maxim guns used at the Battle of OMDURMAN in 1898

Original German WWII Era Prototype Bright Steel Seitengewehr 84/98 Bayonet for 98K Rifles with Scabbard U.S. Grenades with the iconic crush shapeOriginal Item: Only One Available. In 1935 the German military introduced the K98k bolt action rifle or Karabiner 98 Kurz, as a replacement for the older GEW98 or Gewehr 98. A new, shorter bayonet was designed to go along with the shortened rifle. The K98 bayonet was officially named Seitengewehr 84 98 III or SG 84 98 III. The bayonet was designed as a close combat sidearm that could be placed on the tip of a K98. This design was actually not really