Italian Fighting Knives of World War Two.....

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Two M35 Blackshirt fighting knives.  Fasces is evident on both of these examples.  Notice the slanting belt loop on the rexerse of the scabbard.  Photo evidence shows this model of fighting knife being used by RSI forces post 1943 as well as the M39 fighting knife.

Model 39 fighting knife in a WW Austro-Hungarian scabbard.  The scabbard is painted Italian green over the earlier Austro-Hungarian paint.  Unusual.

Wooden training knife.  Came out of a depot for the Torino Division.  Italian 1943 book on hand to hand fighting to include the use of the fighting knife.

Austro-Hungarian fighting knife from WW1.  Numbers of these were captured by the Italians and were reused during WW2.  This example still has the original Austrian paint on the scabbard.  Some say the Italian M39 fighting knife is based on this design.  I do not know for sure...anybody?