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The KA-BAR Fighting/Utility Knife is the most widely recognized and popular combat knife ever to be produced in the United States. Since its introduction on 23 November 1942, the KA-BAR has performed brilliantly on the battlefields of Europe, the South Pacific, Korea, Southeast Asia, Central America and the Middle East, earning its moniker as the “ultimate fighting knife.” In this book, Greg Walker gives readers an inside view of the exacting design criteria, cutting-edge materials, extensivefactory tests and exhaustive real-life field tests that went into the historic redesign of the blade, handguard, handle, pommel, and sheath of the ultimate fighting knife of the future. The new knife excelled at these rigorous tests, earning the right tobe called a KA-BAR. 8 1/2 x 11, softcover, photos, illus., 80 pp.