Original French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1892 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Châtellerault - dated 1892 U.S. Replica most significantly with the US

most significantly with the US Marine Corps

This is in the Japanese "Zodiac" format

headed by German aeronautical engineer Ernst Zindel

but that was added just before it was imported into the United States many years ago

According to the Army Air Corps Library and Museum he received the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster on February 26th

Original French Mannlicher Berthier Mle 1892 Saddle-Ring Carbine by Châtellerault - dated 1892 U.S. Replica most significantly with the USOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Mannlicher Berthier rifles and carbines were a family of bolt action small arms in 8mm Lebel, used in the French Army from the 1890s to the beginning of World War II (1940). The Berthier design began as the "Mousquetons Berthier" a series of bolt action cavalry and artillery carbines with distinctly different actions from the Mle 1886 M93 8mm Lebel rifle. For instance, the Berthier carbine's bolt lugs lock