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Posted: 6/9/2015 7:23:41 PM EDT
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A coworker just got this knife on trade and was curious about it I told him I would post some pics of it here to see if anyone here knows anything. |
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The design was supposedly going to be the issue knife for German paratroopers.
The Germans never made much if any real combat jumps after the early war days so a jump knife was no longer needed. Plus, they simply didn't have the brass to waste on a knife. These were made as fake "genuine" Nazi/SS/Fallschirmjager/Gestapo, etc, etc knives in the post-war days. I'm not sure when they started assembling these, but possibly in the early post-war days for USGI souvenirs. |
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The design was supposedly going to be the issue knife for German paratroopers. The Germans never made much if any real combat jumps after the early war days so a jump knife was no longer needed. Plus, they simply didn't have the brass to waste on a knife. These were made as fake "genuine" Nazi/SS/Fallschirmjager/Gestapo, etc, etc knives in the post-war days. I'm not sure when they started assembling these, but possibly in the early post-war days for USGI souvenirs. Thanks for all the input guys. I told my coworker what y'all told me and he is still convinced it's a special rarity that's not a post war piece. Some people are hard to convince the truth to. I found more info on other blade forums that back everything y'all have said. |
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