First Post, help identify

[lgcal20ga]

Thanks to all of you. Jim, I am still out here, but as a newbie on the forum, my posts have to go thru moderator editing before being viewed by all.

Found out thru all this and talking to my Uncle Tony that my Dad served with the First Infantry, 26th Regiment, F Company. (I knew about the First Infantry part, the Big Red One). After returning to Germany after the Bulge, he did a short stint as a guard at the Nuremberg Trials. My Uncle remembers my Dad saying that he slept on a truck all the way thru France when he arrived in Europe, some time after the invasion. He was wounded in the Ardennes Forest near Achen, I believe, and then spent a few weeks in England in the hospital before going back. Still don't have any idea where exactly he found the sword.

Thanks again for all the information, and finding out what this sworn truly is. If you try the link I posted above, there is a picture of what looks like the exact same sword model in a book on Austrian Military Arms.

Larry