Original U.S. WWII Bring Back Philippine Moro Curved Blade Knife with Scabbard MILITARIA The sweeping "scimitar" style blade

The sweeping "scimitar" style blade with widening fore section and blood fullers to each side

the brass trigger guard is engraved A/11

It is in fact a mystery how these managed to go all the way through the Second World War without having been used

with the plating intact

Headquarters

Original U.S. WWII Bring Back Philippine Moro Curved Blade Knife with Scabbard MILITARIA The sweeping "scimitar" style bladeOriginal Item: One Only. This is a very nice curved short sword from the Philippines, as used by the Moro people. The collective term Moro people or Bangsamoro people refers to the 13 Islamized ethnolinguistic groups of Mindanao, Sulu, and Palawan. They had fought against the United States during the Philippine American War of 1899 1902, in which the Moro tribe rebelled against American rule. The insurrection had been going on since the early 1890s,