No, these never existed. Once again, a myth that won't die. Real theater-made knives can be purchased from us, and outfits such as GunnysSurplus.com Videographer Oleg Volk is at OlegVolk.net
@@SharpPointyThings There was one floating around in the family, still in box with multi language mostly picture instruction insert paper for a while, till my aunt got all "guns are bad" and had all my great uncle's WW2 bring back and collected stuff scrapped.
about that comparison of knives to the sten gun. There are some advantages with the knife. 1. knife is more concealable 2. knives don't run out of ammo(I don't think the resistance in Europe could count on constantly and consistently being replenished with ammo) 3. the knife can be used without making noise.
And every house in France had a knife. Or a set of knives. Or lots of knives. And anyone who worked metal could make a shiv. I addressed this in the video.
I guess some jag off in the 1950s came into possession of a large number of cheap foreign made knock offs of a WW2 survival/fighting knives. They took them to gun shows or sold them throughmagazine ads as drop knives. I once saw a guy at a gun show who had a box of Opiniel mushroom knives that he listed as French Army combat engineer EOD mine clearing tools.
This sounds like a really bad idea. And yet he is adamant the U.S. Government had nothing to do with it. Really Bad Idea. U.S. Government. I believe this could have happened.
Drop knives were very popular with the French army along with the drop rifles. Pretty much any thing can be made into a knife why bother with all the crap of collecting up knives to send unless it is a way to fill your own pocket.
@@SharpPointyThingsGood deal. I think it's more an edit-in-post issue, though. The intro music is at an appropriate level, but the rest of the video isn't (have to bump my computer's volume from 20 to 40 to hear you clearly after the intro... 40 would blow my eardrums with the intro). However, good content and enjoying the mythbusting/Fuddbusting!
@@SharpPointyThings Understood MZW. I was thinking audio editing in post would be able to correct. I'm not very experienced with any of that software, just 'thinking outloud' so to speak.
Starting in 1944,operation carpetbagger,a series of supply drops to resistance fighters in france,italy and the low countries dropped,among other things,71,000 knives .....by the operations end...some were made specially for the purpose in the uk ,sterile and devoid of any maker names....none were dropped randomly,they were all carefully planned.....it mattered considerably if the knife had the makers name on it or not...if a plain clothed civillian in occupied europe was caught with a knife marked with a us or british maker name,questions would be asked,but if the knife was sterile with no name it would be supposed it would be his everyday work knife.
I have never seen credible documentation of this, and again, everyone had knives. Lacking a contract record showing this, it's just another myth. And British or American style knives, marked or not, would be distinctly different from local knives. Carpetbagger was dropping entire kit for resistance troops--guns, knives, pouches, web gear, and there's no reference to it being sterile, because it would be pointless. If you're carrying weapons and fighting the Germans, it doesn't matter if the gear is marked or not, they knew where it came from. "Oh, the knife is unmarked, we'll never know where they got it. Possibly from Zaire, or maybe a hidden factory in the Caucasus."
"Well, if we can't send knives, how about incredibly cheap sheet metal single-shot .45s?"
Which they did manufacture, with plenty of documentation, but ironically never deployed.
@@SharpPointyThings Yep, and by all accounts they were remarkably unpleasant to shoot--even for the one shot necessary to get a 'real' gun.
@@SharpPointyThings There was one floating around in the family, still in box with multi language mostly picture instruction insert paper for a while, till my aunt got all "guns are bad" and had all my great uncle's WW2 bring back and collected stuff scrapped.
@@publicacultus Sorry to hear that.
@@publicacultusI'd have scrapped my Aunt
Drop knives were made for use against Drop Bears.
about that comparison of knives to the sten gun. There are some advantages with the knife.
1. knife is more concealable
2. knives don't run out of ammo(I don't think the resistance in Europe could count on constantly and consistently being replenished with ammo)
3. the knife can be used without making noise.
And every house in France had a knife. Or a set of knives. Or lots of knives. And anyone who worked metal could make a shiv. I addressed this in the video.
@@SharpPointyThings okay, just saying.
Keep up the good work, Mike
I guess some jag off in the 1950s came into possession of a large number of cheap foreign made knock offs of a WW2 survival/fighting knives. They took them to gun shows or sold them throughmagazine ads as drop knives. I once saw a guy at a gun show who had a box of Opiniel mushroom knives that he listed as French Army combat engineer EOD mine clearing tools.
This sounds like a really bad idea. And yet he is adamant the U.S. Government had nothing to do with it.
Really Bad Idea. U.S. Government.
I believe this could have happened.
The government does do a lot of stupid things, but it doesn't do all the stupid things. Even a blind squirrel finds a broken clock now and then.
Drop knives were very popular with the French army along with the drop rifles. Pretty much any thing can be made into a knife why bother with all the crap of collecting up knives to send unless it is a way to fill your own pocket.
why was the grip of that clip pointed knife reversed?
Mike - audio is still low. I am old and getting deaf.
Still working on it. These were older recordings. It is clearer. New mic on recent efforts.
@@SharpPointyThingsGood deal. I think it's more an edit-in-post issue, though. The intro music is at an appropriate level, but the rest of the video isn't (have to bump my computer's volume from 20 to 40 to hear you clearly after the intro... 40 would blow my eardrums with the intro).
However, good content and enjoying the mythbusting/Fuddbusting!
@@BattleChemistThe intro was recorded separately.
@@SharpPointyThings Understood MZW. I was thinking audio editing in post would be able to correct. I'm not very experienced with any of that software, just 'thinking outloud' so to speak.
@@BattleChemist As the editor, I can confirm this is moreso an issue with the audio mixing problems of my headset. Noted for future videos, however.
Audio???
Starting in 1944,operation carpetbagger,a series of supply drops to resistance fighters in france,italy and the low countries dropped,among other things,71,000 knives .....by the operations end...some were made specially for the purpose in the uk ,sterile and devoid of any maker names....none were dropped randomly,they were all carefully planned.....it mattered considerably if the knife had the makers name on it or not...if a plain clothed civillian in occupied europe was caught with a knife marked with a us or british maker name,questions would be asked,but if the knife was sterile with no name it would be supposed it would be his everyday work knife.
I have never seen credible documentation of this, and again, everyone had knives. Lacking a contract record showing this, it's just another myth. And British or American style knives, marked or not, would be distinctly different from local knives.
Carpetbagger was dropping entire kit for resistance troops--guns, knives, pouches, web gear, and there's no reference to it being sterile, because it would be pointless. If you're carrying weapons and fighting the Germans, it doesn't matter if the gear is marked or not, they knew where it came from. "Oh, the knife is unmarked, we'll never know where they got it. Possibly from Zaire, or maybe a hidden factory in the Caucasus."