4 x Yank magazine “The army weekly” - 1944-1945
Nr. 83981243
Verenigde Staten van Amerika - MI6 - OSS - Hand-to-Hand Fighting Book - "Get Tough" by Capt W.E. Fairbairn - use of Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife - named on cover - 1942
Nr. 83981243
Verenigde Staten van Amerika - MI6 - OSS - Hand-to-Hand Fighting Book - "Get Tough" by Capt W.E. Fairbairn - use of Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife - named on cover - 1942
VERY RARE book ''Get Tough'', Hand-to-hand fighting, as taught to the British Commandos by Major W.E, Fairbairn. Extremely nice OSS-MI6 related handbook, in used condition: please look at the photo's carefully for an important own impression. This is a nice early edition which was published in 1942, and it is named on the cover.
Fairbairn was a British Royal Marine officer. He developed hand-to-hand combat methods for the allied special forces during World War II. He developed innovative pistol shooting and fighting techniques and the development of the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife.
During WW2, he was recruited by the British Secret Service as an Army officer. Together with fellow close-combat instructor Sykes, Fairbairn was commissioned on the General List in 1941. He trained British, American and Canadian Commando and No. 2 Dutch Troop 10th Inter-Allied Commando forces, along with Ranger candidates in close-combat, pistol-shooting and knife-fighting techniques.
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