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Originally posted by Janos:
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Well, being a "trenchart" collector as well as daggers, etc, I think this wooden RAD just could have been made by an RAD troop who had some time to kill. His initials were "HD", his RAD unit is scratched under the crossguard.
I am sure you all know what "trenchart" is so no need to epand on that. I made, in the US Army at Ft Riley, KS, several "trenchart" ashtrays over one Christmas/New Years Holiday. They are hand made of 90mm blank rounds with linked .30cal and/or 7.62 Nato rounds on the outside and a worked over .50cal case and projectile in the center over the primer tube.
Soldiers with free time tend to "make stuff".
