Original U.S. WWII USMC Mark 2 KA-BAR Fighting Knife With Leather Sheath - Marked with Laundry Number U.S. Uniforms Measurements: 10 ½” x 8”

Measurements: 10 ½” x 8”

Besides the commanding officer who was a colonel

Lower border of the poster reads:

It was important during the Great War to send images such as this one all across the homefront

and by December they had been combined into a battalion as the Robin Hood RVC

Original U.S. WWII USMC Mark 2 KA-BAR Fighting Knife With Leather Sheath - Marked with Laundry Number U.S. Uniforms Measurements: 10 ½” x 8”Original 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