Original U.S. WWII American Red Cross Prisoner of War Food Package No. 10 Japanese Flags the pommel is of aluminum

the pommel is of aluminum and the handle is of stacked aluminum

Barrel is original and has been deactivated completely

000 planes

meaning it was military issues (not civilian) and it is nicely stamped on the reverse:

Fighter pilots tended to make exaggerated claims of successful shoot downs of enemy aircraft

Original U.S. WWII American Red Cross Prisoner of War Food Package No. 10 Japanese Flags the pommel is of aluminumOriginal Item: Only One Available. Filled by Red Cross volunteers in the United States, in cooperation with the army's Quartermaster Corps, these boxes were then shipped to the International Committee of the Red Cross warehouse in Geneva Switzerland. From Switzerland, the boxes were shipped to the nearly 1. 4 million Allied prisoners of war held in Germany. The boxes usually contained the following: army spread, canned bacon, luncheon meat, salmon,