Sounds like this item:
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Unusual light sword with 24 1/2" single fuller, slightly curved blade with a 2" clip point and four branch stamped sheet ****l hand guard, with two piece wood handles secured with three brass rivets. The left ricasso is marked "MILSCO". Accompanied by its original brown leather scabbard with brass tip and throat. CONDITION: Blade retains most of its original finish with bright, sharpened edges that have several deep nicks. Hand guard and grip retain most of their original finish, some nicks in the wood handle. Scabbard is flexed with some loose stitching. The tip is dented and bent and all the brass retains a dark brownish patina. 4-48971 JR763.
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MILSCO made knives, swords and scabbards for the US Navy and probably Marine Corps as well. A short google search has turned up items from both WWI and WWII.
Although I´m by no means a blade expert, I´d wager that's a WWII-era blade designed to chop up vegetation and japanese people in equal measures, probably for the Pacific theatre.
Or it might be older still, and have some connection to the Marine campaigns in Panama and Nicaragua in the early 1900's.
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