Original British WWII Service Worn 3rd Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Alloy Handle Napoleonic It is visually distinctive because

It is visually distinctive because of a wide tubular cooling shroud around the barrel — often omitted in World War I when used on aircraft — and a top-mounted drum-pan magazine

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Original British WWII Service Worn 3rd Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Alloy Handle Napoleonic It is visually distinctive becauseOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an good service worn example of the standard "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with the later type alloy handle. As brass was a "strategic material," only the early examples of the third pattern have brass handles, with later war produced models having alloy handles. The handle dates production somewhere between mid 1944 and the end of the war. The knives varied somewhat in size, and