Knives (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill CIV (US)]

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

OED has entries for Bowie Knife and for Stiletto

No entry for Fairbairn

Capt. W. E. Fairbairn, _Get Tough How to Win in Hand-to-Hand Fighting_
1942 no publisher named [possibly published by U.S. Govt?] P 96
"The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife (shown on the opposite page)
developed by the author and a colleague, is highly recommended as
possessing the requisite qualities."
http://www.ep.tc/problems/46/096.html


_Popular Mechanics_ Nov 1954 p 48G [ad copy]
"Authentic British Commando Knife "The Fairbairn" "
http://books.google.com/books?id=sdwDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48-IA7#v=onepage&q&f=
false


W. E. B. Griffin _Call to Arms_ NY: Jove, 1987 p 256
"McCoy had opened them up with his Fairbairn, which was a knife invented
by a Limey captain on the Shanghai Municipal Police."


Neither does OED have an entry for Balisong

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
Caveats: NONE

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