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From what I can find, it's WWII production. All the Colonial brand knives were made with this handle, fancy name.

OK then.

Supposedly, so many were made they were still issuing them through Vietnam.

That too I heard. My Kbar with the VP scabbard is a WW2 marked knife that I obtained from a US SEAL on board the USS Alamo in 1980. They had them by the box full...so your pattern could easily exist too.