Original U.S. WWII USN Mark 2 KA-BAR Blade Marked Fighting Knife with Leather Scabbard Category_Snider Rifle Accessories July was more or less

July was more or less a let-down to the Group as no missions were flown during the first seventeen days of the month

above serial number 373908

Before the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor

The helmet was then repainted with a Normandy Pattern Camouflage Pattern

The left side of the receiver marked Tulle / M80 next to MLE 1866-74 indicating manufacture at the government arsenal at Tulle

Original U.S. WWII USN Mark 2 KA-BAR Blade Marked Fighting Knife with Leather Scabbard Category_Snider Rifle Accessories July was more or lessOriginal Item: Only One Available. The originator of the KA BAR trademark, Union Cutlery Co, began using the name in 1923, having received a letter from a fur trapper who had used the knife to kill a wounded bear which attacked him when his rifle jammed. According to company records, the letter was only partially legible; "ka bar" could be read, as fragments of the phrase "kill a bear". In 1923, the company adopted the name Ka Bar from the "bear