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I first saw a Fairbairn-Sykes dagger, an icon of War II special operations units, at Special Forces Training Group in 1961. One of my training sergeants showed me his F-S and told me it saved his life in France after he had parachuted into Normandy before D-Day. Previously, in basic training, I had heard my first sergeant tell a story to my platoon sergeant, both veteran World War II paratroopers, about his Fairbairn-Sykes dagger “snapping off at the hilt in a Nazi’s ribs.” My sergeants both agreed that the design of daggers caused them to be weak.

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