searchingforacircuitbreaker:Major Dick Winters’ Sykes Fairbairn fighting knife.This knife was a gift
searchingforacircuitbreaker:Major Dick Winters’ Sykes Fairbairn fighting knife.This knife was a gift from Lt. Lewis Nixon who was Winters’ close friend. The inscription is “L.N.” (Lewis Nixon) to “D.W.” (Dick Winters) “November 1943”. This knife is referenced in Winters’ war time letters and was taken by an unknown person at some point and the inscription was unsuccessfully partially removed with a file. Major Winters and Easy Company arrived in England in September 1943 and trained with British Soldiers and Commandos who sported the British Sykes Fairbairn knife. These knives became a “luxury item” and were very coveted by the U.S. soldiers who had them.Source: gettysburgmuseumofhistory -- source link
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