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フェアバーン・サイクス戦闘ナイフ

出典: フリー百科事典『ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 (2024/06/30 10:05 UTC 版)

フェアバーン・サイクス戦闘ナイフ（Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife）は、ウィリアム・E・フェアバーン（英語版）とエリック・A・サイクス（英語版）によって開発された諸刃の戦闘用ナイフである。フェアバーンとサイクスは共に上海共同租界警察（英語版）の元警官だった^[1]。

脚注

^ Chambers, John W., OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II, Washington, D.C., U.S. National Park Service (2008), p. 191: Fairbairn joined the Shanghai Municipal Police（英語版） (SMP) in 1907. During his service with the International Police in Shanghai, Fairbairn reportedly engaged in hundreds of street fights in the course of his duties over a twenty-year career. Much of his body, arms, legs, torso, even the palms of his hands, was covered with scars from knife wounds from those fights.
^ Dunlop, Richard, Behind Japanese Lines: With the OSS in Burma, New York: Time Life Co., ISBN 0-8094-8579-6, ISBN 978-0-8094-8579-6 (1991): "Fairbairn had invented a stiletto as precise as a surgeon's scalpel. He wielded it with a flashing, slashing vigor that invariably proved fatal to an opponent. 'Why is it so long and thin?' I asked him one day in a question period during my own course of instruction. 'It doesn't have a cutting edge.' 'It doesn't leave any marks on the body,' he replied. 'Scarcely more than a tiny drop of blood.'"
^ ^a ^b Cassidy, William L., A Brief History of the Fairbairn–Sykes Fighting Knife
^ Allan, Stuart. Commando Country. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland, 2007. ISBN 978-1-905267-14-9.
^ Fairbairn, W.E. (December 1996) [1942]. Get Tough (new ed.). Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press. ISBN 0-87364-002-0
^ Chambers, John W., OSS Training in the National Parks and Service Abroad in World War II, Washington, D.C., U.S. National Park Service (2008), p. 191