Original Japanese WWII Guadalcanal Captured USGI Signed Silk "Meatball" Flag - 132nd Infantry Regiment Original Machine Guns This particular poster is notable

This particular poster is notable for being part of a 1942 contest sponsored by Devoe & Reynolds Painting Company to create images that would reinforce the importance of protecting information

about 11 inches shorter than the usual 44 inches

There is a slot cut into the tube at the on the upper surface allowing the Cartridge "pins" to protrude

which wears the badge of the Order on a necklet

which has also caused a crack in the scabbard

Original Japanese WWII Guadalcanal Captured USGI Signed Silk "Meatball" Flag - 132nd Infantry Regiment Original Machine Guns This particular poster is notableOriginal Item: One of a kind. The 132nd Infantry Regiment was inducted into federal service on March 5, 1941, at Chicago, Illinois, as part of the 33rd Infantry Division, and participated in divisional maneuvers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee. It was relieved from the 33rd Division on January 14, 1942, and assigned to Task Force 6814, an assemblage of units gathered for immediate transfer to Australia to defend against threatened Japanese invasion. On the