Heh. "U.S. 1944"
Pop bought a whole bunch of surplus stuff after the War*, including half a dozen machetes and scabbards to clear the scrub brush off our ground out on Long Island. We were going to build a summer house out there.
I recall they were not real hard steel, but more like hatchet steel. Would not hold an edge like, you know, real cutlery steel (especially since half the time you struck dirt with it) but they were easy to dress with a file.
Terry
* WW II