Original Unissued U.S. WWII USMC Mark 2 KA-BAR Fighting Knife by CAMILLUS in Leather Sheath Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock and on 17 September 1944

and on 17 September 1944 at 12:31 hours

A heavily fictionalized version of the escape was depicted in a film

Baker General Hospital in Martinsburg

however now with a big white "X" over Mussolini and a new message:

After the Allied breakout and the race to the Seine River

Original Unissued U.S. WWII USMC Mark 2 KA-BAR Fighting Knife by CAMILLUS in Leather Sheath Category_MG 34 Buffer & Butt Stock and on 17 September 1944Original 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