Dagger, Dress, Luftwaffe
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Gebr. Heller
- Physical Description
- Luftwaffe Officer's dress dagger; steel blade dagger with black leather bound handle and stylized winged hilt; silver wire pommel and hilt with embossed Swastika; steel sheath steel with black leather cover; steel chain hanger.
- Summary
- The donor collected this dagger in Germany during the immediate post-war period. He served the U.S. Third Army G-2 Intelligence branch from late June 1944 until the late summer of 1945.
- Credit Line
- Donated by Eric M. Lipman
- Inventory Number
- A19751369000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Weapon
- Materials
- Steel
- Copper Alloy
- Silver Alloy Plating
- Natural Fiber
- Non-Magnetic White Metal Alloy Wire
- Possible Leather
- Dimensions
- 3-D: 44.6 × 11.1 × 2.9cm (17 9/16 × 4 3/8 × 1 1/8 in.)
- Country of Origin
- Germany
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19751369000
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9530e07c3-91a3-4bab-b33e-c5c779355716
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