Original U.S. WWII USMC Mark 2 KA-BAR Fighting Knife With Leather Sheath - Marked with Laundry Number U.S. Uniforms As with the earlier uniforms

As with the earlier uniforms

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

and the insignia are gold

Original U.S. WWII USMC Mark 2 KA-BAR Fighting Knife With Leather Sheath - Marked with Laundry Number U.S. Uniforms As with the earlier uniformsOriginal 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