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The Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife is a double-edged fighting knife resembling a dagger or poignard with a foil grip developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes in Shanghai based on concepts which the two men initiated before World War II while serving on the Shanghai Municipal Police in China.The F–S fighting knife was made famous during World War II when issued to British Commandos the Airborne Forces the SAS and many other units especially for the Normandy Landings in June 1944.
