Original British WWII Service Worn 3rd Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Alloy Handle Japanese Flags Left side of helmet fitted

Left side of helmet fitted with brass hackle mount currently holding a later red and green feather hackle

The barrel still shows the 5 groove rifling

but does have No 3749 stamped twice

- Excellent “Handbook of the Pacific for Fighter Pilots

F and H at Fort Assinniboine

Original British WWII Service Worn 3rd Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Alloy Handle Japanese Flags Left side of helmet fittedOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is an good service worn example of the standard "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with the later type alloy handle. As brass was a "strategic material," only the early examples of the third pattern have brass handles, with later war produced models having alloy handles. The handle dates production somewhere between mid 1944 and the end of the war. The knives varied somewhat in size, and