Original U.S. Percussion Trade Rifle with Octagonal Barrel circa 1830 - 1840 Japanese Awards Medals Badges Insignia The 9th AF would later

The 9th AF would later move to England to serve as a tactical unit to take part in the invasion of Europe

The campaign ended just days later

which had arrived in Normandy a few days earlier

the two B-17 groups moved to Casablanca proved surplus to Air Transport Command's needs and the squadron was inactivated in late July 1945 and its planes ferried back to the United States

Original U.S. Percussion Trade Rifle with Octagonal Barrel circa 1830 - 1840 Japanese Awards Medals Badges Insignia The 9th AF would laterOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a Trade Rifle built by a U. S. Country Gunsmith in the 1830's or 1840's. It has an octagonal 7 groove rifled barrel of about . 39 bore. It is half stocked and has brass mounts. Built on the lines of a Pennsylvania Rifle often referred to as a Kentucky Rifle with a stock that is almost full length, with a brass plate nose cap. Comes complete with wood ramrod, Trade Lock shows pitting under which there appears