>>122887> Have you tried cutting anything with the back of a 81? It simply will not do it, at all.I didn't say they were excellent logging tools, their purpose is to allow infantrymen to
saw small tree limbs and such to camouflage a fox hole or observation post.
> As to whether the sawback bayonet was intended for physical harm, opinion, as far as I know, differs.Saw-backed pioneer bayonets had been issued to combat engineer units since the Napoleonic Era,
there was nothing new about them and the claims of being "bowel-ripping instruments" was just Allied
war-time propaganda.
