Combat knife

ID: 1143 ~ Source: Mel Price ~ Creator: Katie Hegebarth on behalf of the Museum of History and Holocaust Education ~ Date: December, 2023
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Knife issued to Mel Price by the U.S. Army before his deployment in 1944. ID: Silver metal knife with a black handle beside a brown leather sheathe.

This file appears in: Staged for Deployment

By Melvin Price
"After we finished this long flight of 3,000 miles, we were sent to Topeka, Kansas. Topeka had an airfield, and it served as a staging area. There, we were equipped with all of our overseas gear. We still didn't know our final destination. They…