To a question you didn't ask:
Don't know anything about the knife but the USS General E.T. Collins (AP-147) was launched 22 January 1944 and commissioned 20 July 1944. It carried troops into the PTO. Its last passage was 14 May 1946 when it arrived in San Francisco. It was decommissioned in May 1946 but was later reacquired by the Navy in 1950 and used it during the Korean War.
I am researching its namesake, General Collins, who was born and raised in my hometown of Williamsport, Pa.
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