The Mythical WWII Drop Knife

[@petesheppard1709]

"Well, if we can't send knives, how about incredibly cheap sheet metal single-shot .45s?"

[@SharpPointyThings]

Which they did manufacture, with plenty of documentation, but ironically never deployed.

[@petesheppard1709]

@@SharpPointyThings Yep, and by all accounts they were remarkably unpleasant to shoot--even for the one shot necessary to get a 'real' gun.

[@publicacultus]

@@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.

[@SharpPointyThings]

@@publicacultus Sorry to hear that.

[@flaemthipple2599]

​@@publicacultusI'd have scrapped my Aunt

[@warblerab2955]

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.

[@SharpPointyThings]

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.

[@warblerab2955]

@@SharpPointyThings okay, just saying.

[@Sygma6]

Drop knives were made for use against Drop Bears.

[@deniskozlowski9370]

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.

[@raphlvlogs271]

why was the grip of that clip pointed knife reversed?

[@andrefrank8270]

Audio???

[@scottvincent2418]

Mike - audio is still low. I am old and getting deaf.

[@SharpPointyThings]

Still working on it. These were older recordings. It is clearer. New mic on recent efforts.

[@BattleChemist]

@@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]

@@BattleChemistThe intro was recorded separately.

[@BattleChemist]

@@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.

[@marshallhoyt]

@@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.

[@stevedenis8292]

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.

[@jlocke62]

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.

[@SharpPointyThings]

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.