Questions about a find.

[dantzk8]

I've found this axe head. I can read : USA, True Temper, Flint Edge, Kelly Works. There are some tracks of green paint. A US Army regiment was stationed in my area in 1944 before the Battle of the Bulge. I wonder if this axe was a piece of equipment attached to a military vehicle.
Any information would be welcome. Particularly about the pattern.
I plan to make a handle and a sheath for it and use it.
Thanks.

https://imgur.com/a/Ty7KY4p

Dan.

 

[garry3]

The U.S.A stamp is in line with military issue further confirmed by the green paint. It appears to have seen considerable use. It was probably a Dayton pattern.

https://archive.org/details/TrueTemperToolsCatalog1R1938/page/n143/mode/2up?view=theater

 

[dantzk8]

The U.S.A stamp is in line with military issue further confirmed by the green paint. It appears to have seen considerable use. It was probably a Dayton pattern.

https://archive.org/details/TrueTemperToolsCatalog1R1938/page/n143/mode/2up?view=theater

Thanks, it's a eighty years old axe so it has been probably used. However it looks in good shape. The poll and the eye aren't deformed. I always test the bits with the same file and it seems the edge is still in the hardened part. The guy who owned it since fourty years didn't use it and has certainly never sharpened it. I'm going to clean it, make an handle and a sheath, sharpen it and see if it's usable. I do hope to revive this axe.

Dan.

 

[garry3]

Perhaps it came from the engineer combat battalion that was in Belgium in WW2. We can't prove it, but it wouldn't be farfetched, it would explain the use also.

 

[crbnSteeladdict]

I've found this axe head. I can read : USA, True Temper, Flint Edge, Kelly Works. There are some tracks of green paint. A US Army regiment was stationed in my area in 1944 before the Battle of the Bulge. I wonder if this axe was a piece of equipment attached to a military vehicle.
Any information would be welcome. Particularly about the pattern.
I plan to make a handle and a sheath for it and use it.
Thanks.

https://imgur.com/a/Ty7KY4p

Dan.

https://archive.org/details/TM9-803/page/n219/mode/2up

Documentary footage of American Axes being used in Normandy.
skip to 50:36s

 

[garry3]

I have been following this story where a vet goes back to Belgium, Germany ect. Just posted a few weeks ago.
Not many of these guys left.....

 

[dantzk8]

Thanks all for these informations. This axe head is somehow a piece of history. I have a thought for those who fought, far from home, during the terrible winter of 1945.

Dan.