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| Tango01 | 30 Apr 2018 10:13 p.m. PST |
…"BAR' Slaying "Few pieces of gear are steeped in as much martial history as the KA-BAR Fighting Utility Knife — from stories of brutal close-quarters combat to myths about the knives being so durable that they were sent along with wooden shipping crates instead of crowbars during World War II. Today marks the 120th anniversary of the company that gave the military its most iconic blade. Even the name KA-BAR has its roots in legend. As the story goes, a fur trapper in the 1900s wrote a letter about killing a grizzly bear with a knife from the Union Cutlery Company, which began producing its first knives in 1898. The letter was so smudged, all that was made out from the passage was: "K A Bar." And so the KA-BAR trademark was born, and years later, Union Cutlery was renamed after the Brand…"
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