Incredible Rare WWII CASE V-42 First Special Service Force Stiletto Knife
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Item: Incredible Rare WWII CASE V-42 First Special Service Force Stiletto Knife
Dimensions: Blade is6 7/8" long. Total length is 12".
Condition: Knife is in good conditionwith wear and some light rust and tarnish as shown. This stiletto is original and not a reproduction. Only 3240 of these knives were produced. Nice lookinghandle has some wear asshown in the photos. Blade has some slight wear and rust as shown in the photos. Skullcrusher has some tarnish and light rust as shown. Does not come with scabbard. Marked as shown in the photos. This is an incredibly rare knife!
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The First Special Service Forcewas the predecessor to what would be known as the Army Special Forces. In fact the V-42 is immortalized as the centerpiece of the logo of the current Army Special Forces (The Green Berets) today. According to US Government procurement and receiving reports, a total of 3,420 of the knives were purchased during World War II, not counting the 3 sample knives submitted by Case during the initial testing phase. The deliveries appear to have take place between late 1942 and November of 1943.
TheV-42knife was produced by the famousW.R. Casecompany of Bradford, PA. The W.R. Case company was started in 1889 by the Case Brothers: William Russell (WR), Jean, John and Andrew. Initially the sold knives as traveling salesmen, working the wagon roads of upstate New York, with their home base being Little Valley. The Case brothers had learned the knife making and retailing business while working for the Cattaraugus Cutlery Company. In 1905, John Russell Case, son of W.R. Case, moved the company to Bradford, PA and established it as W.R. Case & Sons. The company grew to become one of the foremost American knife making companies over the next few decades. During World War II, Case manufactured thousands of fighting knives and edged weapons for the US military including the M-3 Trench Knife, producing some 300,465 of those knives during the war. They also produced the USAAF Survival Machete and the V-42 Stiletto, which Case claimed to have produced more than 3,600 of during the war, a number that slightly exceeds known US government purchasing records. The Case company remains in business in Bradford today, as a subsidiary of the Zippo Lighter Company.
TheV-42Stilettowas developed by Colonel Robert T. Frederick, who was to command the newFirst Special Service Force, an all volunteer join commando force utilizing both American and Canadian troops. The design of the knife was influenced by the close combat instructor for the battalion, Michael “Pat” O’Neill, who had served as a sergeant with the Shanghai Municipal Police under the legendary close combat instructors Fairbairn and Sykes. In fact the basic contour of theV-42closely resembled that of the famous Fairbairn Sykes fighting knife. Colonel Frederick selected the sample knife submitted by Case, over examples provided by Camillus and Cattaraugus as well. The hilt has a palm swell and was made of thin leather washers, stacked and compressed. A small steel crossguard separated the ricasso from the hilt. The obverse ricasso had a thumbprint sized serrated imprint, which was intended to allow the soldier to correctly orient the knife by feel, and allowed the thumb to index and support the knife when stabbing an opponent. As the knives were hand made by Case, the size and number of the serrations in the thumbprint is known to vary from knife to knife. Below the thumbprint serrations, the nameCASEwas stamped on the ricasso. A pointed pommel cap was included at the rear of the hilt, which was intended for use as a “skull crusher” in close combat. The pommel cap was secured to the hilt of the knife by a single transverse pin. The blade and the pommel caps were deeply blued to protect the metal of the knife and to minimize reflection from the metal.
What a beauty!
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